The
World Wheat Book

Volume 3 Contents

The World Wheat Book: Volume 3

  • Dedication
  • Foreword
  • Preface - Jean-Yves Foucault
  • Preface - Sanjaya Rajaram
  • The ‘Saga’ of Wheat - the successful story of wheat and human interaction

Part 1. Wheat Breeding: Country perspectives

  • The History of Wheat Breeding in Portugal
  • The History of Wheat Breeding in Sweden
  • The History of Wheat Breeding in Estonia
  • The History of Wheat Breeding in Belarus
  • The History of Wheat Breeding in Mongolia
  • The History of Wheat Breeding in Kyrgyzstan
  • The History of Wheat Breeding in Uzbekistan
  • The History of Wheat Breeding in Tajikistan
  • The History of Wheat Breeding in Southern Kazakhstan
  • The History of Wheat Breeding in Moldova
  • The History of Wheat Breeding in Jordan
  • Wheat Breeding at ICARDA: Achievements and Prospects in the CWANA Region
  • The History of Wheat Breeding in Iraq
  • The History of Wheat Breeding in Afghanistan
  • The History of Wheat Breeding in Syria
  • The History of Wheat Breeding in Algeria
  • The History of Wheat Breeding in Libya
  • The History of Wheat Breeding in Egypt
  • The History of Wheat Breeding in Nigeria
  • Alert: Saharan Oases wheat genetic resources in danger
  • The Unique heritage of East Asian bread wheat
  • The History of Wheat Breeding in Ecuador
  • The History of Wheat Breeding in Bolivia
  • The History of Wheat Breeding in Chile
  • The History of Wheat Breeding in Peru

Part 2. Breeding Strategies

  • The increasing need for an agro-ecological approach to wheat Breeding
  • Developing a toolkit in wheat using Public: Private partnerships – a personal journey
  • Wheat doubled haploids: production to sequencing - what makes them so appealing?
  • Wheat functional genomics
  • Progress towards achieving a reference genome sequence to accelerate the selection of improved wheat varieties
  • Genomic Selection

Part 3. Challenging Constraints to production

  • An introduction into the role of applied nutritional bio-chemistry in the expression of genetic yield potential and disease resistance.
  • Wheat root system - the next goal
  • Wheat photosynthetic improvement
  • Wheat Blast: An emerging disease in South America potentially threatening wheat production

Part 4. Understanding and Utilizing Genetic Resources

  • Exploitation of Interspecific Diversity in Wheat
  • Genetics and Breeding Involving Wheat-Rye Translocations for Wheat Improvement
  • T. timopheevii and T. zhukovskii, the bread wheat cousins and their contribution to T. aestivum improvement
  • Ex situ and in situ conservation efforts for Aegilops and wild Triticum species

Part 5. Wheat - its relationship with mankind

  • The Health Benefits of Wheat
  • History and milestones of wheat processing and end-uses around the world, East Asia excepted: past, present and prospective
  • Wheat allergies and intolerances and strategies to fight them
  • Wheat (cultural) heritage in social and cultural life
  • The importance and evolution of wheat recipes as human food through history
  • Wheat and religions

Part 6. Wheat as an International commodity

  • Wheat SWOT analysis vs other cereals; advantages vs maize and rice in food applications
  • The international wheat trade - historical, current and prospective trends

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