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Cereal Genomics: Excitements, challenges and opportunities

author(s) Gupta, P K - Varshney, R K
from International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
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Gupta, P K and Varshney, R K (2013) Cereal Genomics: Excitements, challenges and opportunities. In: Cereal Genomics II. Springer, Netherlands, pp. 1-9. ISBN 978-94-007-6400-2

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Abstract

Cereals constitute the most important food crops of the world, occupying ~680 million hectares of land and producing ~2,295 million tonnes of food grain globally (October 4, 2012; http://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/wfs-home/csdb/en/), even though this production is lower than that for the year 2011 (2,340 million tonnes

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