Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies, Volume 2: Agronomic, Abiotic and Biotic Stress Traits

ISBN-13: 9783319225173 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 707 str.

Jameel M. Al-Khayri; S. Mohan Jain; Dennis V. Johnson

Opis

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. This book consists of two volumes: Volume 1 subtitled Breeding, Biotechnology and Molecular Tools and Volume 2 subtitled Agronomic, Abiotic and Biotic Stress Traits. This is volume 2 which contains 18 chapters highlighting breeding strategies for specific plant traits including improved nutritional and pharmaceutical properties as well as enhanced tolerance to insects, diseases, drought, salinity and temperature extremes expected under predicted global climate change.

Spis treści

Part I. Sustainability, Nutrition and Pharmaceuticals.- 1. Sustainable Agriculture and Plant Breeding; Dinesh Narayan Bharadwaj.- 2. Breeding Crop Plants for Improved Human Nutrition through Biofortification: Progress and Prospects; Prakash I. Gangashetty et al.- 3. Role of Genomics in Enhancing Nutrition Content of Cereals; Mehanathan Muthamilarasan, Manoj Prasad.- 4. Molecular Farming using Transgenic Approaches; Ramandeep Kaur Jhinjer.- Part II. Forage and Tree Traits.- 5. Forages: Ecology, Breeding Objectives and Procedures; Saeed Rauf.- 6. Breeding vis-à-vis Genomics of Tropical Tree Crops; Padmanabhan M. Priyadarshan.- 7. Coconut Breeding in India; Raman V. Nair et al.- Part III. Abiotic Stress Tolerance.- 8. Molecular Breeding to Improve Plant Resistance to Abiotic Stresses; G.J.N. Rao et al.- 9. Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) Marker for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants; Ratan S. Telem et al.- 10. Transgenic Approach for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants; Shabir H. Wani et al.- 11. Breeding Strategies to Enhance Drought Tolerance in Crops; Saeed Rauf et al.- 12. Breeding Strategies for Enhanced Plant Tolerance to Heat Stress; Viola Devasirvatham et al.- 13. QTLs for Genetic Improvement under Global Climate Changes; Ramón Molina-Bravo, Alejandro Zamora-Meléndez.- 14. Genotype x Environment Interaction Implication: A Case Study of Durum Wheat Breeding in Iran; Reza Mohammadi, Ahmed Amri.- Part IV. Biotic Stress Resistance.- 15. Breeding Strategies for Improving Plant Resistance to Diseases; Thomas Miedaner.- 16. Breeding and Genetics of Resistance to Fusarium Wilt in Melon; Ali Oumouloud, José M. Álvarez.- 17. Viral, Fungal and Bacterial Disease Resistance in Transgenic Plants; Vinod Saharan et al.- 18. Current Status of Bacillus thuringiensis: Insecticidal Crystal Proteins and Transgenic Crops; Devendra Jain et al.- Index.

Blurb

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 2 which contains 18 chapters highlighting breeding strategies for specific plant traits including improved nutritional and pharmaceutical properties as well as enhanced tolerance to insects, diseases, drought, salinity and temperature extremes expected under predicted global climate change. Chapters addressing these topics are grouped into four parts: Part I, Sustainability, Nutrition and Pharmaceuticals; Part II, Forage and Tree Traits; Part III, Abiotic Stress Tolerance; and Part IV, Biotic Stress Resistance.  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.