Accelerated Plant Breeding, Volume 3

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Efficient Breeding of Pulse Crops

   • Shiv Kumar, Priyanka Gupta, Hasnae Choukri, Kadambot H. M. Siddique

   Pages 1-30

3. Advances in Chickpea Breeding and Genomics for Varietal Development and Trait Improvement in India

   • Ashutosh Kushwah, Shayla Bindra, Inderjit Singh, G. P. Dixit, Pankaj Sharma, S. Srinivasan et al.

   Pages 31-66

4. Conventional and Biotechnological Approaches for Targeted Trait Improvement in Lentil

   • Dorin Gupta, Rama Harinath Dadu, Prabhakaran Sambasivam, Ido Bar, Mahsa Azad, Navya Beera et al.

   Pages 67-107

5. Updates of Pigeonpea Breeding and Genomics for Yield Improvement in India

   • Pankaj Sharma, Inderjit Singh, Abhishek Bohra, Indra Prakash Singh, Abha Tiwari, Mehak Sethi et al.

   Pages 109-141

6. Genomics-Assisted Breeding Green Gram (Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek) for Accelerating Genetic Gain

   • J. Shanthala, D. L. Savithramma, P. Gazala, Bharath Kumar Jambagi, Shri Krishna P. Desai

   Pages 143-171

7. Breeding for High-Yielding and Disease-Resistant Urdbean Cultivars

   • Debjyoti Sen Gupta, Jitendra Kumar, Ashok Kumar Parihar, Sanjeev Gupta

   Pages 173-191

8. Lentil Breeding in Genomic Era: Present Status and Future Prospects

   • Jitendra Kumar, Debjyoti Sen Gupta, Pravin Tiwari

   Pages 193-209

9. Chickpea Breeding for Abiotic Stress: Breeding Tools and ‘Omics’ Approaches for Enhancing Genetic Gain

   • Uday Chand Jha, Harsh Nayyar, Rintu Jha, Chaitanya Prasad Nath, Dibendu Datta

   Pages 211-234

10. Recent Advances in Mungbean Breeding: A Perspective

    • Suma C. Mogali, Gurudatt M. Hegde

    Pages 235-282

11. Genetic Advancement in Dry Pea (Pisum sativum L.): Retrospect and Prospect

    • A. K. Parihar, G. P. Dixit, A. Bohra, D. Sen Gupta, Anil K. Singh, Nitin Kumar et al.

    Pages 283-341

12. Translational Genomics and Breeding in Soybean

    • Anita Rani, Vineet Kumar

    Pages 343-367

13. Efficient Improvement in an Orphan Legume: Horsegram, Macrotyloma uniflorum (Lam.) Verdi, Using Conventional and Molecular Approaches

    • Rakesh Kumar Chahota, Nisha Thakur, Reecha Sharma

    Pages 369-388

14. Molecular and Conventional Breeding Strategies for Improving Biotic Stress Resistance in Common Bean

    • T. Basavaraja, Aditya Pratap, Vikas Dubey, S. Gurumurthy, Sanjeev Gupta, N. P. Singh

    Pages 389-421

15. Correction to: Genomics-Assisted Breeding Green Gram (Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek) for Accelerating Genetic Gain

    • J. Shanthala, D. L. Savithramma, P. Gazala, Bharath Kumar Jambagi, Shri Krishna P. Desai

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16. Back Matter

    Pages 423-430

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Plant improvement has shifted its focus from yield, quality and disease resistance to factors that will enhance commercial 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.

• Accelerated breeding
• Doubled haploid breeding
• Marker assisted selection
• Transgenic breeding
• Genomic selection
• High-throughput genotyping/phenotyping

• Former Director of Research, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India

  Satbir Singh Gosal

• Mountain Research Centre for Field Crops, SKUAST-Kashmir, Srinagar, Jammu, Kashmir, India

  Shabir Hussain Wani

Dr. Satbir Singh Gosal is a former Director at the School of Agricultural Biotechnology, and former Director of Research at Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India. He was an Honorary Member of the Board of Assessors (Australian Research Council, Canberra), Biotechnology Career Fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation, USA, and President of the Punjab Academy of Sciences. He has published more than 200 research papers in refereed journals and 35 book chapters. He has co-authored one textbook and co-edited 6 Books with Springer.


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 16 books on plant stress physiology, including 10 with Springer. He served as a Review Editor for Frontiers in Plant Science from 2015 to 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.

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