Wheat Landraces

Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Wheat Landraces in Mesopotamia.- Chapter 3 Conservation of Plant Genetic Resources.- Chapter 4 Characterization of Genetic Diversity in Wheat Landraces.- Chapter 5 Macro-Micro Elements in Wheat Landraces and their use in breeding.-  Chapter 6 Nutritional and Technological Properties of Wheat Landraces.- Chapter 7 Total Economic Value of Wheat Landraces.- Chapter 8 Chemical contents of wheat landraces and their contribution to human health.- Chapter 9: Climate change and global warming effect on wheat landraces: a general approach.- Chapter 10 Wheat Landraces Versus Resistance to Biotic and Abiotic stresses.- Chapter 11- Contribution of landraces in wheat breeding.- Index.

Nusret Zencirci is a graduate of Çukurova University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Field Crops. He worked as a wheat breeder in the Central Research Institute for Field Crops, Ankara and served as a National and International Coordinator to National and International Wheat programs including Interntaional Winter Wheat Improvement Program. He is a 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.

 

Faheem Shehzad Baloch graduated from Bahuddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan from where he got his Master of Agronomy in 2006 following a BSc (Hons) in agriculture in 2004 from the same university. He obtained his PhD from University of Çukurova, Adana, Turkey in 2012. He started his career as na assistant professor at Nigde Ömer Halis Demir university, Nigde Turkey in 2013. In 2015, he joined Bolu Abant Izzet baysal University, Bolu, Turkey, then to Science and Technological University, Sivas where he occupies the position of associate professor. In his current position, he is responsible but not limited to teaching and research activities and supervising MSc and PhD students. He supervised and graduated many MSc and PhD students as well as guided post doc fellows. He has experience in molecular plant breeding with good expertise in genomics, phenomics, population genetics, and biotechnology with special interest in cereals and legumes. He applies various genomics techniques to mine various genes of agricultural interest in the plant genetic resources and accelerate plant breeding through marker assisted selection and genomic prediction. He is the author of more 70 articles in international