Molecular Breeding for Sustainable Crop Improvement Volume 2 /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Rajpal, Vijay Rani (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Rao, S. Rama (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Raina, S.N (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Σειρά: Sustainable Development and Biodiversity, 11
• Θέματα: Life sciences.; Biodiversity.; Evolutionary biology.; Plant genetics.; Plant breeding.; Life Sciences.; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology.; Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography.; Evolutionary Biology.; Plant Genetics & Genomics.

Molecular Breeding for Sustainable Crop Improvement, Volume 2 focuses on integration of advances in genetics, cytogenetics, molecular biology and biotechnology aimed at alien gene introgression for genetic improvement of major crop species at molecular level to help overcome the limitations associat...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface
• 1. Use of alien genetic variation for wheat improvement; P.K. Gupta
• 2. Quantitative trait loci mapping in plants: concepts and approaches; D. Sehgal
• 3. Developing and deploying abiotic stress tolerant maize varieties in the tropics: challenges and opportunities; B.M. Prasanna
• 4. Harnessing apomixes for heterosis breeding in crop improvement; V. Bhat
• 5. Status and opportunities of molecular breeding approaches for genetic improvement of tea; R. Kumar Sharma
• 6. Molecular cytogenetic approaches in exploration of important chromosomal landmarks in plants; Y. Mukai
• 7. Technological advances in studying gene pool diversity and its exploitation; S. Goel
• 8. Introgression and exploitation of QTL for yield and yield components from related wild species into rice cultivars; K. Neelam
• 9. A molecular phylogenetic framework for Timothy (Phleum pratense L.) improvement; A. Stewart
• 10. Genetic improvement of basmati rice – The journey from conventional to molecular breeding; A.K. Singh
• 11. Genetic diversity and coffee (Coffea sps) improvement in India; R.K. Aggarwal
• 12. Introgression and exploitation of biotic stress tolerance from related wild species in wheat cultivars; P. Chhuneja
• 13. Genetic improvement of sugarcane through conventional and molecular approaches; S. Kumar
• 14. Germline transformation for crop improvement; R. Tandon
• 15. Advances in molecular breeding of pearl millet; D. Sehgal
• 16. Molecular marker-based selection tools in spring bread wheat improvement: CIMMYT experience and prospects; S. Dreisigacker
• Index. .