Rice: Origin, History, Technology, and Production 1st Edition
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Rice: Evolution, History, Production, and Technology, the thirdbook in the Wiley Series in Crop Science, provides unique,single-source coverage of rice, from cultivar developmenttechniques and soil characteristics to harvesting, storage, andgermplasm resources. Rice covers the plant's origins and history,physiology and genetics, production and production hazards,harvesting, processing, and products.
Comprehensive coverage includes:
* Color plates of diseases, insects, and other productionhazards
* The latest information on pest control
* Up-to-date material on marketing
* A worldwide perspective of the rice industry
Rice provides detailed information in an easy-to-use format, makingit valuable to scientists and researchers as well as growers,processors, and grain merchants and shippers.
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Rice: Evolution, History, Production, and Technology, the third book in the Wiley Series in Crop Science, provides unique, single-source coverage of rice, from cultivar development techniques and soil characteristics to harvesting, storage, and germplasm resources. Rice covers the plants origins and history, physiology and genetics, production and production hazards, harvesting, processing, and products.
Comprehensive coverage includes:
- Color plates of diseases, insects, and other production hazards
- The latest information on pest control
- Up-to-date material on marketing
- A worldwide perspective of the rice industry
Rice provides detailed information in an easy-to-use format, making it valuable to scientists and researchers as well as growers, processors, and grain merchants and shippers.
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Rice: Evolution, History, Production, and Technology, the third book in the Wiley Series in Crop Science, provides unique, single-source coverage of rice, from cultivar development techniques and soil characteristics to harvesting, storage, and germplasm resources. Rice covers the plants origins and history, physiology and genetics, production and production hazards, harvesting, processing, and products.
Comprehensive coverage includes:
- Color plates of diseases, insects, and other production hazards
- The latest information on pest control
- Up-to-date material on marketing
- A worldwide perspective of the rice industry
Rice provides detailed information in an easy-to-use format, making it valuable to scientists and researchers as well as growers, processors, and grain merchants and shippers.
About the Author
C. Wayne Smith, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, and Robert H. Dilday, Rice Research and Extension Center, University of Arkansas, Stuttgart, AR.
C. Wayne Smith, editor of the Wiley series on Crops and co-editor of this volume of the series, received his doctorate in 1978 from the University of Tennessee and joined Texas A&M as a professor in 1986.
Robert Dilday is a research geneticist with the USDA-ARS at the University of Arkansas.
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Product details
- Publisher : Wiley; 1st edition (September 9, 2002)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 656 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0471345164
- ISBN-13 : 978-0471345169
- Item Weight : 2.9 pounds
- Dimensions : 7.24 x 1.41 x 10.18 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,292,065 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #330 in Agronomy (Books)
- #399 in Crop Science (Books)
- #767 in Horticulture (Books)
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