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Wheat Brett F. Cotton Production Khawar Jabran. Tobacco Del Davis. Back cover copy Barley is one of the world's oldest and most important domesticated crops.
Grown globally, barley is a key crop in world agriculture with end uses that range from animal feed, malting and brewing, to a source of vital nutrients in the human diet. Barley: Production, Improvement, and Uses brings together a wealth of information from leading researchers providing a comprehensive single volume source of information on the biology, production, and end use of this globally relevant grain.
Barley: Production, Improvement, and Uses consists of eighteen chapters ranging from the basic physiology and genetics of the barley plant to global methods of crop improvement via breeding and production, including management of biotic and abiotic stresses. The final chapters look at the various end uses of barley around the world.
Each chapter provides an historical context of each topic alongside a review of the latest advances in the field and a look forward to future directions of barley research and utilization. A definitive source of information on all key aspects of the crop, Barley: Production, Improvements, and Uses will be an essential purchase for anyone working with this world agricultural staple.
Key Features: Comprehensive coverage of one of the world's oldest and most important domesticated crops Chapters from more than 50 contributors in 15 countries providing a truly global view of barley production, improvement, and use Topics covered range from basic biological make up of barley to production of the crop to its multitude of end uses show more. Table of contents Contributors. Color plate is located between pages and Review Text "Overall, therefore, the book is not without flaws, but it remains a comprehensive source of information and a valuable addition to the literature on a hugely important crop species.
Each chapter provides an historical context of each topic alongside a review of the latest advances in the field and a look forward to future directions of barley research and utilization. Bestselling Series. Weed control is important, as it is for all crops although barley is known to be more competitive with grass weeds than other crops. Not Enabled. All rights reserved. Syria : The Crop Trust supported the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas ICARDA to develop dynamic trait specific GIS-based subset for barley landraces in ICARDA genebank by using ecogeographic data and distribution maps of major biotic and abiotic stresses to predict areas of high selection pressures for related trait, with the aim of getting information that will be used to derive sub-samples of accessions for each major biotic and abiotic constraint for introduction into appropriate screening programs.
Review quote "Overall, therefore, the book is not without flaws, but it remains a comprehensive source of information and a valuable addition to the literature on a hugely important crop species. About Steven E. Ullrich Steven E. Rating details. Book ratings by Goodreads. The agricultural production index PIN use here is the sum of agricultural commodities produced after deductions of quantities used as seed and feed. It is weighted by the commodity prices.
Barley is one of the world's most important crops with uses ranging from food and feed production, malting and brewing to its use as a model organism in. Barley is one of the world's most important crops with uses ranging from food and feed production, malting and brewing to its use as a model organism in molecular research. and Uses Volume 12 of World Agriculture Series.
The idea for this chart is taken from Ausubel, Wernick, and Waggoner Countering the global rise of population and affluence by parents and workers, consumers and farmers restrained the expansion of arable land by changing tastes and lifting yields. The noticeable shrinkage in the extent of cropland as a function of the Crop Production index since Figure below provides encouragement that farmers will continue sparing land. In the chart below we see index trends in cereal production, yield, land use and population measured from i.
From to , global cereal production has increased by percent. If we compare this increase to that of total population which increased only percent over the same period , we see that global cereal production has increased at a much faster rate than that of population. If distributed equally, cereal production per person has increased despite a growing population. Have we achieved this through land expansion or improved yields? A bit of both. Overall, this means we use less land per person than we did fifty years ago. Despite a notable expansion of agricultural land in the early s, over the last few decades land use for cereal production has increased only marginally.
Most of our improvements in cereal production have arisen from improvements in yield. The average cereal yield has increased by percent since Today, the world can produce almost three-times as much cereal from a given area of land as it did in There is therefore an important relationship between yields improvements and land use. Increasing yields reduces the pressure of expanding agricultural land.
In the chart below, we see the indexed change in land area used for cereal production from on the y-axis , measured against the indexed change in cereal yield over the same period on the x-axis. In these trends we see large regional differences in this yield-land use trade-off. Most European, American both North and Latin American , Asian and Pacific countries have seen a much larger increase in cereal yields relative to area used for production.
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