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Crop Improvement

New Approaches and Modern Techniques

  • Comprehensive approach to understanding crop improvement
  • Contributions from leading scientists worldwide
  • Explores the role of fertilizer in improving crop yield, disease resistance, and nitrogen absorption
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. Agrobacterium rhizogenes-Mediated Transformation and Its Biotechnological Applications in Crops

    • Ibrahim Ilker Ozyigit, Ilhan Dogan, Ebru Artam Tarhan
    Pages 1-48
  3. Bioinformatic Tools in Crop Improvement

    • L. F. De Filippis
    Pages 49-122
  4. Crop Improvement Through Plant Tissue Culture

    • Sumiya Jamsheed, Saiema Rasool, Shivani Koul, Mohamed Mahgoub Azooz, Parvaiz Ahmad
    Pages 123-148
  5. Mutagenesis—A Potential Approach for Crop Improvement

    • Rajib Roychowdhury, Jagatpati Tah
    Pages 149-187
  6. Role of Bio-fertilizers in Crop Improvement

    • Majeed-ul-Hassan Chesti, Tabasum N. Qadri, Asiya Hamid, Javed Qadri, Mohamed Mahgoub Azooz, Parvaiz Ahmad
    Pages 189-208
  7. Plant-Microorganism Interactions: Effects on the Tolerance of Plants to Biotic and Abiotic Stresses

    • Muriel da Silva Folli-Pereira, Lydice Sant’Anna Meira-Haddad, Cristina Maria Nobre Sobral de Vilhena da Cruz Houghton, Maria Catarina Megumi Kasuya
    Pages 209-238
  8. Biotic Stress and Crop Improvement: A Wheat Focus Around Novel Strategies

    • Alvina Gul Kazi, Awais Rasheed, Abdul Mujeeb-Kazi
    Pages 239-267
  9. Variability in Fusarium species Causing Wilt Disease in Crops: A Transcriptomic Approach to Characterize Dialogue Between Host and Pathogen

    • Reiaz ul Rehman, Khalid Rehman Hakeem, Inayatullah Tahir, Bilal Ahmad Padder, Mehraj ul Din Shah, Mushtaq Ahmad Teli
    Pages 269-293
  10. An Overview of Omics for Wheat Grain Quality Improvement

    • Awais Rasheed, Tariq Mahmood, Alvina Gul-Kazi, Abdul Mujeeb-Kazi
    Pages 307-344
  11. Arsenic Toxicity and Tolerance Mechanisms in Plants: An Overview

    • Saiema Rasool, Muneeb U. Rehman, Mohamed Mahgoub Azooz, Muhammad Iqbal, Tariq Omar Siddiqi, Parvaiz Ahmad
    Pages 363-378
  12. In vitro Production of Secondary Metabolites Using Elicitor in Catharanthus roseus: A Case Study

    • Zahid Hameed Siddiqui, Abdul Mujib, Mahmooduzzafar, Junaid Aslam, Khalid Rehman Hakeem, Talat Parween
    Pages 401-419
  13. Handling Soybean (Glycine max L.) Under Stress

    • Mohammad Miransari
    Pages 421-439
  14. Environmental and Economical Opportunities for the Valorisation of the Genus Atriplex: New Insights

    • Maali Benzarti, Kilani Ben Rejeb, Ahmed Debez, Chedly Abdelly
    Pages 441-457
  15. Dealing with Environmental Stresses: Role of Polyamines in Stress Responses

    • Rinukshi Wimalasekara, Günther F. E. Scherer
    Pages 459-483
  16. Back Matter

    Pages 485-493

About this book

The improvement of crop species has been a basic pursuit since cultivation began thousands of years ago. To feed an ever increasing world population will require a great increase in food production. Wheat, corn, rice, potato and few others are expected to lead as the most important crops in the world. Enormous efforts are made all over the world to document as well as use these resources. Everybody knows that the introgression of genes in wheat provided the foundation for the “Green Revolution”. Later also demonstrated the great impact that genetic resources have on production. Several factors are contributing to high plant performance under different environmental conditions, therefore an effective and complementary use of all available technological tools and resources is needed to meet the challenge.

Editors and Affiliations

  • , Faculty of Forestry, University Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia

    Khalid Rehman Hakeem

  • A.S. College, Department of Botany, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, India

    Parvaiz Ahmad

  • , Faculty of Forestry, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia

    Munir Ozturk

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Crop Improvement

  • Book Subtitle: New Approaches and Modern Techniques

  • Editors: Khalid Rehman Hakeem, Parvaiz Ahmad, Munir Ozturk

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7028-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

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

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2013

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-7027-4Published: 08 June 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-7357-3Published: 09 July 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-7028-1Published: 13 June 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 493

  • Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Plant Genetics and Genomics, Plant Sciences

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