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Food
Profa. Úrsula M. Lanfer Marques
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences/USP
CARVIER, B.F. Wheat: Science and Trade. Ames: Wiley- Blackwell, 2009. 569 p.
Wheat is the world´s largest and most important food crop with an annual harvest of more than 224 million tonnes from 224 million hectares in 2008-2009. It is the greatest source of dietary calories and the most internationally traded agricultural commodity. No other cereal can produce so many different food products as wheat. Over the last 60 years, the increased productivity reached reflects advances in science and technology. These advances are expected to continue in the future, and all over the world there is a challenge to achieve sustainable high-yielding cultures, while avoiding expansion of the area of cultivation. The success of wheat productivity-gain programs from favorable irrigated and high-rainfall geographic areas to unfavorable semiarid areas, to meet the demands of an ever-increasing population, depends on all aspects of crop and soil science. Massive investments and sharing of knowledge between private and public sectors of research are the keys for the development of this complex system of wheat production, covering traditional breeding, innovative genetic variation, machinery and supplies, agricultural practices, besides weed and pest control to meet the increasing demand for high-quality end products. This book is designed for students, scientists and practitioners from agronomic and related areas of crop science, offering readers rich, comprehensive and current literature, not only on the development and quality of wheat, but covering diverse aspects of research. Specifically, plant physiology and pathology, entomology, genetics, development of new cultivars, taxonomy, chemistry and biochemistry of cereals, food processing and agribusiness are all focused. This publication, edited by Brett F. Craver, has drawn an impressive list of internationally respected authors, each providing cutting-edge chapters covering all these major topics of recent research. The first section of this publication, comprising three chapters, is designed to explain the process of wheat domestication and genetic evolution of the wheat plant. The second section, which covers 9 chapters, deals with strategies of management, control of diseases from different origins, and also improved performance of wheat cultures; the third section spans six chapters and describes the development of new cultivars based on traditional breeding procedures along with the use of molecular markers to select lines coupled to phenotypic data. Additionally, individual genetic mapping, comparative genomics and the development of transgenic application to achieve modified and improved wheat, are also covered in this section. Finally, the fourth and final section comprises five chapters and provides information regarding wheat classification systems, the use of biochemical and molecular markers to evaluate grain quality, the presence of phytochemicals, new applications and modified wheat, and also examines the American wheat marketing system and price regulation. Therefore, this publication is an invaluable resource of information and an excellent reference book for those interested in the production chain of wheat.
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