Overview
- An efficient improvement of existing cultivars to meet rising food demand
- International experts share their knowledge and research
- Practical guides to mitigate the challenges of conventional plant breeding
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Plant improvement has shifted its focus from yield, quality and disease resistance to factors that will enhance commerical export, such as early maturity, shelf life and better processing quality. Conventional plant breeding methods aiming at the improvement of a self-pollinating crop, such as wheat, usually take 10-12 years to develop and release of the new variety. During the past 10 years, significant advances have been made and accelerated methods have been developed for precision breeding and early release of crop varieties.
This work summarizes concepts dealing with germplasm enhancement and development of improved varieties based on innovative methodologies that include doubled haploidy, marker assisted selection, marker assisted background selection, genetic mapping, genomic selection, high-throughput genotyping, high-throughput phenotyping, mutation breeding, reverse breeding, transgenic breeding, shuttle breeding, speed breeding, low cost high-throughput field phenotyping, etc. It is an important reference with special focus on accelerated development of improved crop varieties.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Shabir Hussain Wani received his PhD in Genetics and Plant Breeding from Punjab Agricultural University. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers and edited 13 books on plant stress physiology, including 7 with Springer. He also served as a Review Editor for Frontiers in Plant Science from 2015to 2018. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Mountain Research Centre for Field Crops of the Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural, Sciences and Technology of Kashmir in India.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Accelerated Plant Breeding, Volume 1
Book Subtitle: Cereal Crops
Editors: Satbir Singh Gosal, Shabir Hussain Wani
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41866-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41865-6Published: 24 May 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-41868-7Published: 24 May 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-41866-3Published: 23 May 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 450
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 59 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Plant Genetics and Genomics, Agriculture, Nutrition