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Author: Nusret Zencirci ,
Hakan Ulukan ,
Calvin O. Qualset ,
Mark Nesbitt
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG
Edition: 1st ed. 2018
ISBN: 9783319998039
ISBN 10: 331999803
Pages: 249
Publication Date: 23 October 2020
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
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Nusret Zencirci is a graduate of Cukurova University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Field Crops. He worked as a wheat breeder in the Central Research Institute of for Field Crops, Ankara and served as a National and International Coordinator to National and Internatioanal Wheat programs and also to Interntaional Winter Wheat Improvement Program. He is professor now at Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal University, Science and Art Faculty, Biology Department, Bolu, Turkey. He is a member of various editorial boards in many international journals. He is, with his team, breeder of 22 bread and durum wheat cultivars. His research interests are Cereals, Biotic and Abiotic Stresses, Plant Genetic Resources, and Wheat Breeding. Hakan Ulukan is a graduate of University of Ankara, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Field Crops. He is professor at the same department. He is a member of various editorial boards as a reviwer, editor-in-chief, and associate editor of many high level national and international journals such as JAS, Euphytica, CRC, PJBS, IJAB, etc. His research interests are Cereals and Legumes, Biotic and Abiotic Stresses, Agronomy, Ecology, Plant Genetic Resources, Gene Banks, Gene Centers, Wild Wheats, Plant Domestication, Plant Breeding, Rust Resistance Sources in Wheats, Global Warming Effect(s) on Crops. Calvin Qualset is Professor Emeritus at the University of California-Davis, USA. He taught courses in genetics, genetic resources conservation, plant breeding and agronomy and mentored more than 75 graduate students and postdoctorals. His team developed 20 varieties of wheat, oat, and triticale. He is past President of the American Society of Agronomy and the Crop Science Society of America. He was a Fulbright Scholar to Australia and Serbia. He has been Principal Investigator on several multi-institutional projects on wheat genomics and in situ conservation of milpa crops in Mexico. He has served on Editorial Boards of several journals and led reviews of a number of international centers and programs. Mark Nesbitt does research into useful plants informed by Kew's collections, science strategy and heritage. His research portfolio includes plant fibres (barkcloth, textiles, basketry), medicinal plants and the history of useful plants and botanical institutions in the last 200 years. He has strong collaborative links with universities, including AHRC-funded research projects with the University of Glasgow, and Royal Holloway, and Newton-funded work with Birkbeck College. He carries out postgraduate teaching with these, and Camberwell, University of the Arts, the Royal College of Art, and the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. He curates the Economic Botany Collection, including managing acquisitions, conservation, loans, sampling and hosting of researchers.
