عنوان

Feeding a world population of more than eight billion people :

شابک

0195113128 (alk. paper)

شابک

9780195113129 (alk. paper)

شماره

dltt

عنوان اصلي

Feeding a world population of more than eight billion people :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

a challenge to science /

نام نخستين پديدآور

edited by J.C. Waterlow ... [et al.].

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

New York :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Oxford University Press in association with the Rank Prize Funds,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

1998.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xv, 280 p. :

ساير جزييات

ill. ;

ابعاد

24 cm.

متن يادداشت

Based on papers presented at a symposium sponsored by the Rank Prize Funds held in Ferndown, Dorset, United Kingdom, Dec. 6-9, 1996.

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index.

متن يادداشت

11. Improving yield potential by modification of plant type and through exploitation of heterosis / G.S. Khush, S. Peng, and S.S. Virmani -- 12. Developing crops with resistance to salinity and drought stress / D.P.S. Verma -- 13. Prospects for engineering enhanced durable disease resistance in crops / Chris Lamb -- 14. A systems perspective on post-harvest losses / M. Gill and N. Poulter -- Part IV: The role of animal products in feeding eight billion people -- 15. Significance of dietary protein source in human nutrition: animal and/or plant proteins? / Vernon R. Young, Nevin S. Scrimshaw, and Peter L. Pellett -- 16. Competition between livestock and man for nutrients: let ruminants eat grass / H.A. Fitzhugh -- 17. Animals and the human food chain / R.B. Heap -- Part 5: Social Aspects -- 18. Practical innovation: partnerships between scientists and farmers / G.R. Conway -- 19. Productivity, poverty alleviation and food security / Donald L. Winkelmann.

متن يادداشت

Part 1: The challenge -- 1. Needs for food: are we asking too much? / J. C. Waterlow -- 2. The Economics of Food / Partha Dasgupta -- Part 2: Basic resources and constraints -- 3. Land resources and constraints to crop production / D.J. Greenland, P.J. Gregory, and P.H. Nye -- 4. Water and food in developing countries in the next century / M. Yudelman -- 5. Energy for agriculture in the 21st century / B.A. Stout -- Part 3: Applications of science to increase yield -- 6. Greater crop production: whence and whither? / L.T. Evans -- 7. How and when will plant biotechnology help? / Marc van Montagu -- 8. What limits the efficiency of photosynthesis and can there be beneficial improvements? / J. Barber -- 9. Rubisco: the key to improved crop production for a world population of more than eight billion people? / S.P. Long -- 10. Increasing rice productivity by manipulation of starch biosynthesis during seed development / Sang-Bong Choi, et. al.

بدون عنوان

0

بدون عنوان

0

موضوع مستند نشده

Agricultural innovations, Congresses.

موضوع مستند نشده

Food supply, Congresses.

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Waterlow, J. C., (John Conrad)

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

Rank Prize Funds.

تاريخ عمليات

20140218104224.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y