Brett Carver

editor of Wheat: Science and Trade

November 4, 2015

Originating from Atlanta, GA, Dr. Carver studied at the University of Georgia in Athens, where his contact with several influential agronomists, such as Dr. Weaver (cotton geneticist and breeder) and Dr. R.H. Brown (crop physiologist), shaped and directed his career in crop science. After earning the B.S. degree in 1980, Dr. Carver continued his education at North Carolina State University, conducting research in soybean lipid biochemistry under the direction of Dr. Rich Wilson (M.S. program) and in soybean genetics and breeding (PhD program with Dr. Joseph Burton). Dr. Carver immediately joined the faculty at Oklahoma State University upon graduation in 1985.

As one of the world's largest and most versatile crops, wheat has been the subject of much research from around the globe. Wheat: Science and Trade compiles classic principles of existing research and expands them to include recent advancements in genetics and industry trade for the most comprehensive reference work to date.

Wheat: Science and Trade is divided into four major sections covering all aspects of the wheat plant, crop, cultivar and industry. Section one offers a firm grounding in the development and domestication of wheat with an extensive overview of diseases and pathogens following in Section two. Section three focuses on genetic strategies including QTL detection and marker-assisted selection, genome organization and comparative genomics, and synthetic wheat as an emerging technology. Section four concludes the text with a discussion of changes in industry trade, quality assessment, and new uses for wheat and modified wheat products.

Written by a global team of expert authors, Wheat: Science and Trade is presented in a user-friendly format making it equally accessible to a wide variety of readers. Applicable for the academic, research, consulting, and end-user communities, this text is a must have reference on this key staple crop.

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Last Updated: 14 January 2022