Overview
- Describes the importance of mutation in crop plant research and its application to enhance the crop productivity
- Provides insight into what may lie ahead in the rapidly expanding area of mutation breeding in crop research development
- Highlights new advances in the understanding of improved cultivar in sustainable development
Part of the book series: Sustainable Landscape Planning and Natural Resources Management (SLPNRM)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
This book emphasizes recent developments in the use of mutation technologies for crop plant improvement and, ultimately, sustainable development. Plant breeders use genetic variation, which is created by plant-induced mutation, to create new and improved cultivars. The development of improved cultivars is a productive and optimistic agricultural strategy for economic and environmental sustainability since it ensures high yield stability, enhances soil health, and poses no environmental risks. Understanding mutation induction and exploring its uses have paved the road for improving genetic diversity for different plants and agronomic features and advanced gene discovery for diverse qualities that aid in sustainable development. Plant mutation breeding imitates spontaneous mutation, the primary force driving evolution, by using a plant's own genetic resources instead of genetic transformation. In order to develop beneficial agricultural features, this strategy focuses on the application of various chemical and physical mutagens in conjunction with biotechnologies. In order to survive in challenging environments, increase nutritional value, fight diseases and pests, grow in salty soils, and utilize water and nutrients more effectively, new varieties of plants are developed.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Nitish Kumar is Senior Assistant Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, Central University of South Bihar, Gaya, Bihar, India, since last 12 years. Dr. Kumar completed his doctoral research at the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research–Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India. He has a wide area of research experience in the field of crop improvement using plant biotechnology and mutation breeding techniques. He has published more than 70 research articles in leading international and national journals, more than 20 book chapters, and 7 books with Springer and Taylor & Francis. Dr. Kumar is Recipient of the Young Scientist Award from the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) in 2014. He has received many awards/fellowships/projects from various prestigious Indian government organizations like CSIR, DBT, ICAR and SERB-DST, BRNS-BARC, among others. He is Reviewer for various international journals and serves as Associate Editorof the journal Gene (Elsevier).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Plant Mutagenesis
Book Subtitle: Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Landscapes
Editors: Nitish Kumar
Series Title: Sustainable Landscape Planning and Natural Resources Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50729-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-50728-1Published: 23 April 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-50731-1Due: 24 May 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-50729-8Published: 22 April 2024
Series ISSN: 2948-1910
Series E-ISSN: 2948-1929
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 217
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Agriculture, Food Science