Chickpea Breeding and Management

This volume contains 30 chapters that provide a global perspective on chickpea production management, compiled by Yadav (genetics, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi) et al., with contributions from an international group of individuals in agriculture, biotechnology and genetic engineering, agronomy, biological sciences, and other fields. They discuss the chickpea's history, origin, taxonomy, ecology, consumption pattern, nutritional and antinutritional factors, and geographic distribution. Subsequent chapters cover production management, cropping systems, nitrogen fixation, nutrients, weed and irrigation management, integrated crop production technologies and profitability in cultivation, genetics and cytogenetics, wild relatives, management of biodiversity, breeding, and quality seed production. Advancement in genomics, recent molecular techniques and development of transgenic chickpea are also described, as well as biotic and abiotic stress management techniques, seed storage, world trade, crop modeling, yield stability, parameters, and chickpea growers. The book is aimed at plant breeders, farmers, traders, nutritionalists, academic researchers, and graduate students. Distributed by Oxford U. Press. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)