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Imprint:	New York ; London : Springer, 2010.
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	Handbook of plant breeding ; v. 7 Handbook of Plant Breeding ; v. 7.
Subject:	Root crops. Tuber crops. Root crops -- Breeding. Tuber crops -- Breeding. Root crops. Tuber crops.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8895268

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Other authors / contributors:	Bradshaw, J.E.
ISBN:	9780387927657 (electronic bk.) 0387927654 (electronic bk.) 9780387927640 9786612979422 6612979429
Summary:	It is important to include "Tuber and Root Crops" in the "Handbook of Plant Breeding". They include starchy staple crops that are of increasing importance for global food security and relief of poverty, important millennium goals for the United Nations. Indeed, 2008 was the UN International Year of the Potato in recognition of this role of the potato as the world's third most important food crop after wheat and rice. The other major staples are cassava, sweet potato and yam. Together they occupy about 50 million hectares, with production at 640 million metric tons, of which.
Other form:	Print version: Root and tuber crops. New York ; London : Springer, 2010 9780387927640

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