Beta Maritima: The Origin of Beets

By Enrico Biancardi, Leonard W. Panella, Robert T. Lewellen

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments

1) History and current importance
1.1) Origin
1.2) Domestication
1.3) Athens and Rome
1.4) Middle age
1.5) Renaissance
1.6) Age of science
1.7) Researchers more involved in Beta maritima
1.7.1) Wilhelm Rimpau and Hermann Briem
1.7.2) Franz Schindler
1.7.3) Emanuel von Proskowetz
1.7.4) Ottavio Munerati
1.7.5) Jacques de Vilmorin
1.7.6) Dudok van Heel
1.7.7) Forrest V. Owen
1.7.8) George H. Coons
1.7.9) John S. McFarlane
1.7.10) Viacheslav F. and Helen Savitsky
1.7.11) Devon L. Doney and Larry G. Campbell,
1.7.12) Marco De Biaggi
1.7.13) Robert T. Lewellen
1.7.14) Brian V. Ford-Lloyd
1.7.15) Lothar Frese
1.7.16) Leonard W. Panella
1.7.17) Detlef Bartsch
1.7.18) Henry Darmency
1.7.19) Piergiorgio Stevanato
1.7.20) Henk van Dijk and Nina Hautek ete
2) Range of distribution
3) Morphology, physiology, and ecology
3.1) Seed and germy
3.2) Germination
3.3) Leaves
3.4) Roots
3.5) Color
3.6) Chemical composition
3.7) Seed stalk
3.8) Flowers and flowering
3.9) Pollen
3.10) Gene flow
3.11) Male sterility
3.12) Chromosome number
3.13) Self-incompatibility
3.14) Self-fertility
3.15) Cross fertilization
3.16) Growth habit
3.17) Life span
3.18) Age at maturity
3.19) Reproduction systems
3.19.1) Gynodioecy
3.19.2) Sex ratio
3.20) Interspecific hybrids
3.21) Survival strategies
3.22) Dispersal of the species
4) Taxonomy
5) Uses
5.1) Medical uses
5.2) Food uses
5.3) Other uses
6) Source of useful traits
6.1) Resistance to biotic stresses
6.1.1) Virus yellows
6.1.2) Beet mosaic virus
6.1.3) Rhizomania
6.1.4) Beet curly top virus
6.1.5) Powdery mildew
6.1.6) Root rot 6.1.7) Cercospora leaf spot
6.1.8) Polymyxa betae
6.1.9) Black root
6.1.10) Minor fungal diseases
6.1.11) Nematodes
6.1.11.1) Cyst nematodes
6.1.11.2) Root knot nematodes
6.1.12) Insects
6.1.13) Multiple resistances
6.2) Resistances to abiotic stresses
6.2.1) Drought and heat tolerance
6.2.2) Salinity tolerance
6.3) Other traits
7) Cultivated offspring
7.1) Leaf beet
7.2) Garden beet
7.3) Fodder beet
7.4) Sugar beet
7.5) Energy beet
7.6) Ornamental beet
8) The Future
8.1) Germplasm conservation
8.2) Transgenes diffusion
8.3) Source of new traits

Appendix
A) Beta chronology
B) Authors chronology
C) Names and synonyms of Beta maritima
D) English translation of Latin names given to Beta maritima
E) Essential references

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1489999612
• ISBN13: 9781489999610
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"