Reviews key challenges and advances in maize breeding methods;Discusses the development of varieties with enhanced nutritional and other properties such as improved protein content and abiotic stress resistance;Summarises key steps being taken to support smallholders growing maize in developing countries

Providing comprehensive coverage on biofuel crop production and the technological, environmental and resource issues associated with a sustainable biofuel industry, this book is ideal for researchers and industry personnel. Beginning with an introduction to biofuels and the challenges they face, the book then includes detailed coverage on crops of current importance or with high future prospects, including sections on algae, sugar crops and grass, oil and forestry species. The chapters foc...

In 1878, the first complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered in a coal mine in Bernissart, Belgium. Iguanodon, first described by Gideon Mantell on the basis of fragments discovered in England in 1824, was initially reconstructed as an iguana-like reptile or a heavily built, horned quadruped. However, the Bernissart skeleton changed all that. The animal was displayed in an upright posture similar to a kangaroo, and later with its tail off the ground like the dinosaur we know of today. Focu...

Every regulated company says it wants a state of control. It writes the phrase into procedures, invokes it in front of inspectors, and builds careers around achieving it. Almost none have ever had one.What the life sciences industry has had instead is a photograph of control: captured at intervals, signed, and filed as though the photograph were the thing, while the system it described kept moving. For two decades this was unavoidable, because after-the-fact manual capture was the ...

When a lawyer encounters the woman he's been tasked to find, business turns to pleasure in a fiery game of winner-take-all.Wealthy attorney Gray Baron has come to Las Vegas on a mission to find a woman—Dawn Lincoln Kittredge, the long-lost grandchild of his uncle. But feisty Dawn is not about to make anything easy for him.After being hurt in the past, Dawn is wary of strangers, even gorgeous, sexy ones like Gray. But mutual suspicion doesn't stop an undeniabl...

The bride-to-be…Penniless Savannah knows that to help her sick little sister she has to win big at the casino.The groom…But Sean O'Connell always plays to win…The indecent proposal…Virgin Savannah is no match for Sean and soon she's lost everything! Sean offers her one last gamble: he'll settle her debts if she becomes his wife…for just one night!

USA Today best-selling author Sandra Marton has earned a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award for her catalog of luminous romance tales. Not for Sale stars Caroline Hamilton, a linguist desperate to earn some real money. Enter Brazilian businessman Lucas Vieira, who wants to hire her as a translator and stand-in girlfriend. Considering Lucas' powerful personality, Caroline is more than a little nervous, but she soon finds herself unable to refuse his passionate advances.

Addison is a busy professional in New York who inherited a large ranch in Texas from Charlie, the older man who’d been her boss and mentor, when he passed away. She turns to the Wildes, a well-known family in the area, for help with the ranch, and they suggest that she wait to meet the family’s youngest son, Jake. He’s lauded as a hero after returning from active combat in the military, and when Addison sees him at his welcome party, she can’t tear her eyes away. There’s a despair hidden i...

*50-PAGE FREE PREVIEW* Salim and Grace were once lovers. But when she was made to face the reality of her unworthiness of the crown prince of a desert kingdom, Grace left Salim without a word. Angry at her abrupt departure, Salim tracks her down. They survive a plane crash and find themselves washed up on a deserted island. The shock causes Grace to lose her memory. And yet, whenever Salim touches her, memories awaken within her. Under these extreme circumstances, Grace is forced to realiz...

Lucinda is chosen to be a live-in chef as a birthday present for Joe, a handsome bachelor and highly praised investor. According to his grandmother, the woman giving him the gift, Joe is gay. Lucy is ecstatic to hear this. After her family went bankrupt and her fiancé left her, she’s sick of love. But things take a sudden turn when Joe gives her a sweet but passionate kiss. At the touch of his lips, Lucinda is reminded of the most embarrassing night of her life, when she was forcibly kisse...

Rachel works at a casino in order to support her nephew, Ethan, whose mother has run off. One day an arrogant man suddenly appears at their apartment. When she realizes who he is, Rachel is shocked. He’s Kalim, Ethan’s uncle…and next in line to rule the country of Alcantar. She knows he’ll take Ethan away from her if he finds out who fathered the child. Hoping to avoid that fate, Rachel tries to escape with her baby nephew, only to find Kalim waiting for them at the exit!

Gage, the successful second son of the wealthy Baron family, is shocked when his wife, Natalie, suddenly asks him for a divorce. They had been so in love, even rebelliously eloping when they were young. Gage won’t give up on their marriage, so he decides to take her back to all of the places that hold their most memorable moments together. Will his efforts revive the love and passion that once flowed between them?