Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies: Breeding, Biotechnology and Molecular Tools / edited by Jameel M. Al-Khayri, Shri Mohan Jain, Dennis V. Johnson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Al-Khayri, Jameel M., editor.

Jain, S. Mohan, editor.

Johnson, Dennis Victor, 1937- editor.

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Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Life sciences.

Agriculture.

Plant breeding.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition 2015.

Contained In:

Springer eBooks

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

Plant breeders and geneticists are under constant pressure to sustain food production by using innovative breeding strategies and introducing minor crops which are well adapted to marginal lands, provide a source of nutrition, and have abiotic and biotic stress tolerance, to feed an ever-increasing human population. The basic concept of this book is to examine the use of innovative methods augmenting traditional plant breeding towards the development of new crop varieties under different environmental conditions to achieve sustainable food production. The book consists of two volumes. This is volume 1 which comprises 21 chapters separated into four parts: Part I, Genetic Resource Utilization and Conservation; Part II, Breeding Strategies; Part III, In Vitro Culture and Transgenic Approaches; and Part IV, Molecular Breeding. Topics covered include plant domestication and germplasm utilization, conventional breeding techniques and the role of biotechnology. In addition to various biotechnological applications in plant breeding, it includes functional genomics, mutations and methods of detection, and molecular markers. In vitro techniques and their applications in plant breeding are discussed with an emphasis on embryo rescue, somatic cell hybridization and somaclonal variation. Other chapters cover haploid breeding, transgenics, cryogenics and bioinformatics. The book is a valuable resource for students, researchers, scientists, commercial producers and seed companies as well as consultants and policymakers interested in agriculture, particularly in modern breeding technologies. .

Contents:

Part I. Genetic Resource Utilization and Conservation

1. Plant Domestication and Utilization: The Case of the Pampa Biome

2. Decentralized Collaborative Plant Breeding for Utilization and Conservation of Neglected and Underutilized Crop Genetic Resources

3. Plant Cryopreservation for Biotechnology and Breeding

4. Mutants as a Genetic Resource for Future Crop Improvement

Part II. Breeding Strategies

5. Conventional Plant Breeding Principles and Techniques

6. Applying Epigenetics in Plant Breeding: Balancing Genome Stability and Phenotypic Plasticity

7. Progress and Perspectives of Distant Heterosis in Rice

8. Forward and Reverse Genetics in Crop Breeding

9. Doubled Haploid Breeding in Cereals

Part III. In Vitro Culture and Transgenic Approaches

10. Applications of In Vitro Techniques in Plant Breeding

11. Induced Mutations in Plant Breeding

12. Alternative to Transgenesis: Cisgenesis and Intragenesis

13. Transgenic Pyramiding for Crop Improvement

14. RNAi Technology: A Potential Tool in Plant Breeding

Part IV. Molecular Breeding

15. Molecular Marker-Assisted Breeding: A Plant Breeder's Review

16. Mutant-Based Reverse Genetics for Functional Genomics of Non-Model Crops

17. Prospects of Functional Genomics in Sugarcane

18. Potentials of Proteomics in Crop Breeding

19. Utilization of Diverse Sequencing Panels for Future Plant Breeding

20. Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Tools and Impact in Plant Breeding

21. Molecular Breeding for Genetic Improvement of Cotton (Gossypium spp.)

Index.

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ISBN:

9783319225210

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