As part of the FAO Plant Production and Protection Series, FAO`s Crop and Grassland Service has just published "Bread wheat: Improvement and production" on the web. The book, edited by B.C. Curtis, S. Rajaram and H. Gómez Macpherson, provides extensive information from a number of international experts on the current status of research on wheat improvement and production, as well as on other aspects, from its evolutionary origins to seed production technologies. Of the 29 chapters, 9 deal with genetics and breeding (including, for example, one on "The application of biotechnology to wheat improvement"), 11 with pests and diseases and 5 with management. See http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/006/Y4011E/Y4011E00.HTM or contact [email protected] to request a copy.

06/02/2004