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Beta maritima (2nd Ed., 2nd ed. 2020)
The Origin of Beets
Coordinators: Biancardi Enrico, Panella Leonard W., McGrath J. Mitchell
Language: EnglishSubjects for Beta maritima:
Publication date: 01-2021
284 p. · 15.5x23.5 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 12-2019
284 p. · 15.5x23.5 cm · Hardback
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This book, now in its second edition, provides researchers and operators a complete description of all aspects regarding the wild ancestor of sugar beet. The possibility of crossing modern crops with the ancestors from which they are derived in order to recover some traits lost through domestication is increasingly attracting interest. The selective process implemented by the first growers led to the elimination of features not considered useful at the time. Yet some of these lost traits have now become very important. In fact, in many areas sugar beet cultivation would now be impossible without the transfer of some genetic resistances from Beta maritima, the crop?s ancestor. Moreover, the isolation of such traits is becoming increasingly critical with regard to current and future environmental and economic considerations on e.g. the use of pesticides.
This second edition replaces certain photographs and has been updated to reflect the latest advances and findings. One chapter and several sections have been rewritten, and significant revisions have been made throughout the text. The new techniques provide breeders with massively improved analytical means for the safest and fastest selection procedures. Not only will these techniques allow Beta maritima to take on a far greater role as a source of favorable traits; the relative ease with which these characteristics can be transferred will also make it possible to use the germplasm of the whole genus Beta and Patellifolia, which to date has been highly complex, if not impossible, due to the difficulties of hybridization.
Leonard (Lee) W. Panella is a plant breeder, formerly with the USDA-ARS, now as an affiliate faculty of Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO. Dr. Panella received a B.S. from Michigan State University, an M.S. from Texas A&M, and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Davis. He joined the USDA-ARS as a research geneticist at the Sugar Beet Research Unit in Fort Collins, CO. in 1992, became Research Leader in 2000 and retired in 2017. He has authored or co-authored over 200 publications. He has participated in crop improvement programs dealing with five different crop species; has characterized genetic diversity in sorghum, cowpea, sugar beet, Fusarium oxysporum fsp. betae, and Rhizoctonia solani Kühn with classical and molecular genetic methods; and has released 45 germplasms in three crop species. Most of these re
Provides an essential source of information that will remain valid for all future studies on sugar beet
The first-ever book to focus on Beta maritima
Pays particular attention to historical and graphic aspects
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