Emerging Genetic Technologies for Improving the Security of Food Crops

Emerging Technologies for Promoting Food Security: Overcoming the World Food Crisis

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 23-41

  Singh, Jaswinder ^a   Kaur, Simerjeet ^a   Majithia, Haritika ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biotic and abiotic stresses; Food security; Genomics; Marker assisted selection; Next generation sequencing; Quantitative trait loci

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FOOD SUPPLY; GENES;

BIOTIC AND ABIOTIC STRESS; FOOD SECURITY; GENOMICS; MARKER-ASSISTED SELECTION; NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

CROPS;

EID: 85014467016     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-1-78242-335-5.00002-0     Document Type: Chapter

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