Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies: Breeding, Biotechnology and Molecular Tools

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Al-Khayri, Jameel M. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Jain, Shri Mohan (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Johnson, Dennis V. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2015.
• Θέματα: Life sciences.; Agriculture.; Plant breeding.; Life Sciences.; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology.

Plant breeders and geneticists are under constant pressure to sustain food production by using innovative breeding strategies and introducing minor crops which are well adapted to marginal lands, provide a source of nutrition, and have abiotic and biotic stress tolerance, to feed an ever-increasing...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Part I. Genetic Resource Utilization and Conservation
• 1. Plant Domestication and Utilization: The Case of the Pampa Biome
• 2. Decentralized Collaborative Plant Breeding for Utilization and Conservation of Neglected and Underutilized Crop Genetic Resources
• 3. Plant Cryopreservation for Biotechnology and Breeding
• 4. Mutants as a Genetic Resource for Future Crop Improvement
• Part II. Breeding Strategies
• 5. Conventional Plant Breeding Principles and Techniques
• 6. Applying Epigenetics in Plant Breeding: Balancing Genome Stability and Phenotypic Plasticity
• 7. Progress and Perspectives of Distant Heterosis in Rice
• 8. Forward and Reverse Genetics in Crop Breeding
• 9. Doubled Haploid Breeding in Cereals
• Part III. In Vitro Culture and Transgenic Approaches
• 10. Applications of In Vitro Techniques in Plant Breeding
• 11. Induced Mutations in Plant Breeding
• 12. Alternative to Transgenesis: Cisgenesis and Intragenesis
• 13. Transgenic Pyramiding for Crop Improvement
• 14. RNAi Technology: A Potential Tool in Plant Breeding
• Part IV. Molecular Breeding
• 15. Molecular Marker-Assisted Breeding: A Plant Breeder’s Review
• 16. Mutant-Based Reverse Genetics for Functional Genomics of Non-Model Crops
• 17. Prospects of Functional Genomics in Sugarcane
• 18. Potentials of Proteomics in Crop Breeding
• 19. Utilization of Diverse Sequencing Panels for Future Plant Breeding
• 20. Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Tools and Impact in Plant Breeding
• 21. Molecular Breeding for Genetic Improvement of Cotton (Gossypium spp.)
• Index.