Molecular Techniques in Crop Improvement

1. Front Matter

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2. Plant Breeding in the genomics era

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. QTL Analysis in Plant Breeding

      • Maria J. Asins, Guillermo P. Bernet, Irene Villalta, Emilio A. Carbonell

      Pages 3-21

   3. Comparative Genomics in Crop Plants

      • Mehboob-ur-Rahman, Andrew H. Paterson

      Pages 23-61

   4. Functional Genomics For Crop Improvement

      • Seedhabadee Ganeshan, Pallavi Sharma, Ravindra N. Chibbar

      Pages 63-95

   5. Bioinformatics Tools for Crop Research and Breeding

      • Jayashree B, Dave Hoisington

      Pages 97-116

3. Molecular markers and their application

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 118-118

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   2. Gene-Based Marker Systems in Plants: High Throughput Approaches for Marker Discovery and Genotyping

      • Rajeev K Varshney

      Pages 119-142

   3. Automation of DNA Marker Analysis for Molecular Breeding in Crops

      • Christophe Dayteg, Stine Tuvesson

      Pages 143-161

   4. Pyramiding Genes for Enhancing Tolerance to Abiotic and Biotic Stresses

      • Raveendran Muthurajan, Ponnuswami Balasubramanian

      Pages 163-184

   5. Application of Molecular Markers for Breeding Disease Resistant Varieties in Crop Plants

      • Ana M. Torres

      Pages 185-205

   6. Molecular Markers Based Approaches for Drought Tolerance

      • Deepmala Sehgal, Rattan Yadav

      Pages 207-230

   7. Molecular Markers for Characterizing and Conserving Crop Plant Germplasm

      • G. Barcaccia

      Pages 231-254

4. Genomics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 256-256

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   2. Rice Genomics

      • Narayana M. Upadhyaya, Elizabeth S. Dennis

      Pages 257-279

   3. Genomics for Wheat Improvement

      • Michael G. Francki

      Pages 281-305

   4. TILLING for Mutations in Model Plants and Crops

      • Zerihun Tadele, Chikelu MBA, Bradley J. Till

      Pages 307-332

   5. Microarray Analysis for Studying the Abiotic Stress Responses in Plants

      • Motoaki Seki, Masanori Okamoto, Akihiro Matsui, Jong-Myong Kim, Yukio Kurihara, Junko Ishida et al.

      Pages 333-355

   6. Roles of MicroRNAs in Plant Abiotic Stress

      • Ricky Lewis, Venugopal Mendu, David Mcnear, Guiliang Tang

      Pages 357-372

   7. Molecular Tools for Enhancing Salinity Tolerance in Plants

      • Jesus Cuartero, Maria C. Bolarin, Vicente Moreno, Benito Pineda

      Pages 373-405

Most of the plant breeding programs aim to increase yield, disease and insect resistance, abiotic stress tolerance and to improve quality characteristics. The value of new plant breeding products and varieties in increasing food production has been demonstrated time and again. To meet growing need of ever increasing human population, we need to enhance food production for sustaining food supply. Furthermore, several biotic and abiotic stresses continue to threaten crop product- ity. Moreover with urbanization, land for cultivation is shrinking and several en- ronment concerns involving excessive use of fertilizers and agro-chemicals, soil and water pollution including water scarcity are key issues in increasing crop p- ductivity and food sustainability. Plant breeders therefore, has the major challenge how to increase crop productivity with limited land, limited water, limited che- cals and limited labour particularly in the context of global climate changes. In the genomics era, advances in molecular biology have opened new opportunities to accelerate plant breeding processes and in overcoming some of the above c- straints limiting crop productivity. Molecular markers have become important tools in the hands of plant breeders in marker assisted breeding and for enhancing the selection efficiency for various agronomic traits in precision ‘plant’ breeding.

• Fruit
• Mutation
• Seed
• biotechnology
• breeding
• crop plants
• crops
• genetic engineering
• genetics
• plant breeding
• quality
• recombination
• wheat

• Department of Applied Biology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

  S. Mohan Jain

• Institute (IRRI), Social Sciences Division, International Rice Research, Metro Manila, Philippines

  D.S. Brar

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