As the world's population increases the need to produce greater quantities of
major staple crops such as wheat, rice, maize, potato, cassava, soybean, sweet
potato, barley, and banana in order to sufficiently feed the people of the world
continues to grow. "Breeding Major Food Staples "covers improving yields and
quality of these crops through breeding and the use of molecular biology tools
such as gene transfer, genome mapping, biofortification, and bioinformatics.
This book will be an important reference for anyone working in crop breeding.