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Primarily directed at American students of agriculture, this overview of rice production and related issues contains 22 contributions presented by Smith (Texas A&M U.) and Dilday (United States Department of Agriculture). Excluding American wild rice, the focus of the articles is on Oryza sativa, also called common rice or paddy rice. After discussing the world history of rice domestication, the articles exploring history look at the U.S. industrial and cultivation issues. A section devoted to the plant itself contains articles on morphology, physiology, genetics, cultivars, biotechnology, and allelochemicals. The bulk of the remaining articles explore issues of production, products, and product processing and include discussions of rice soils, soil fertilization, U.S. mechanized rice culture, diseases, U.S. pest management strategies, weed control, marketing, harvesting, storage, and drying and milling. A final chapter discusses germplasm collection, preservation, and utilization.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


Book Description
Thorough coverage of rice, from cultivar development to marketing 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 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 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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Provides unique, single-source coverage of rice, from cultivariate development techniques and soil characteristics to harvesting, storage, and germplasm resources. Valuable reference to scientists, researchers, growers, processors, and grain merchants, and shippers.


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Thorough coverage of rice, from cultivar development to marketing 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 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 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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Thorough coverage of rice, from cultivar development to marketing

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 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 production hazardsThe latest information on pest controlUp-to-date material on marketingA 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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