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

  • Provides current assessment of research and development in modern plant breeding
  • Describes recent achievements in crop improvement based on biotechnological approaches
  • Covers enhanced traits essential for sustainable agriculture under global climate change
  • Chapters are written by an assemblage of internationally prominent scientists
  • Concepts are illustrated with 66 high quality figures and 69 tables

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Sustainability, Nutrition and Pharmaceuticals

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Sustainable Agriculture and Plant Breeding

      • Dinesh Narayan Bharadwaj
      Pages 3-34
    3. Breeding Crop Plants for Improved Human Nutrition Through Biofortification: Progress and Prospects

      • Prakash I. Gangashetty, Babu N. Motagi, Ramachandra Pavan, Mallikarjun B. Roodagi
      Pages 35-76
    4. Role of Genomics in Enhancing Nutrition Content of Cereals

      • Mehanathan Muthamilarasan, Manoj Prasad
      Pages 77-96
    5. Molecular Farming Using Transgenic Approaches

      • Ramandeep Kaur Jhinjer, Leela Verma, Shabir Hussain Wani, Satbir Singh Gosal
      Pages 97-145
  3. Forage and Tree Traits

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147
    2. Forages: Ecology, Breeding Objectives and Procedures

      • Saeed Rauf, Dorota Sienkiewicz-Paderewska, Dariusz P. Malinowski, M. Mubashar Hussain, Imtiaz Akram Khan Niazi, Maria Kausar
      Pages 149-201
    3. Breeding vis-à-vis Genomics of Tropical Tree Crops

      • Padmanabhan M. Priyadarshan
      Pages 203-255
    4. Coconut Breeding in India

      • Raman V. Nair, B. A. Jerard, Regi J. Thomas
      Pages 257-279
  4. Abiotic Stress Tolerance

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 281-281
    2. Molecular Breeding to Improve Plant Resistance to Abiotic Stresses

      • Gundimeda J. N. Rao, Janga N. Reddy, Mukund Variar, Anumalla Mahender
      Pages 283-326
    3. Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) Marker for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants

      • Ratan S. Telem, Shabir H. Wani, Naorem Brajendra Singh, Raghunath Sadhukhan, Nirmal Mandal
      Pages 327-343
    4. Transgenic Approaches for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants

      • Shabir Hussain Wani, Saroj Kumar Sah, Mohammad Anwar Hossain, Vinay Kumar, Sena M. Balachandran
      Pages 345-396
    5. Breeding Strategies to Enhance Drought Tolerance in Crops

      • Saeed Rauf, Jameel M. Al-Khayri, Maria Zaharieva, Philippe Monneveux, Farghama Khalil
      Pages 397-445
    6. Breeding Strategies for Enhanced Plant Tolerance to Heat Stress

      • Viola Devasirvatham, Daniel K. Y. Tan, Richard M. Trethowan
      Pages 447-469
    7. QTLs for Genetic Improvement Under Global Climate Changes

      • Ramón Molina-Bravo, Alejandro Zamora-Meléndez
      Pages 471-513
  5. Biotic Stress Resistance

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 559-559

About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, King Faisal University, Al-Hassa, Saudi Arabia

    Jameel M. Al-Khayri

  • Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    Shri Mohan Jain

  • Cincinnati, USA

    Dennis V. Johnson

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies: Agronomic, Abiotic and Biotic Stress Traits

  • Editors: Jameel M. Al-Khayri, Shri Mohan Jain, Dennis V. Johnson

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22518-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-22517-3Published: 08 April 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79406-8Published: 19 April 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-22518-0Published: 29 March 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 707

  • Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 53 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Agriculture, Plant Breeding/Biotechnology

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