siapa yang menguasai masa lalu, ia akan mengendalikan masa depan.
As a consequence of the success of post-World War II agriculture, particularly in western Europe, many in affluent societies have taken food for granted for decades. We lack historical perspective to conclude that the gap between the world demand and supply of food is widening or otherwise. Nonetheless, the recent debate on this gap and the role of research and development in agriculture is …
very long time span, in fact since settled agriculture was first undertaken. Nowadays these procedures range from very simple mass selection methods, sometimes applied in an ineffective way, to indirect trait selection based on molecular markers. The procedures differ in costs as well as in genetic efficiency. In contrast to the genetic efficiency, costs depend on the local conditions enco…
In my previous book entitled Plant Breeding for Stress Environments (Blum 1988) plant breeding for water-limited environments was only one chapter together with other chapters on heat, cold, mineral deficiency, mineral toxicity and salinity stress. Since that publication several major developments took place regarding plant breeding for stress environments.
The Intemational Symposium on Plant Genetic Engineering: Towards the Third Millennium continues to show the excellent gathering power of the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology of Havana, that attracts first level speakers from all over the world, and delegates from many countries, all interested in the latest advances of this vigorous field where new knowledge mixes with techn…