Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies: Agronomic, Abiotic and Biotic Stress Traits

The basic concept of this book is to examine the use of innovative methods augmenting traditional plant breeding towards the development of new crop varieties under different environmental conditions to achieve sustainable food production. This book consists of two volumes: Volume 1 subtitled Breeding, Biotechnology and Molecular Tools and Volume 2 subtitled Agronomic, Abiotic and Biotic Stress Traits. This is volume 2 which contains 18 chapters highlighting breeding strategies for specific plant traits including improved nutritional and pharmaceutical properties as well as enhanced tolerance to insects, diseases, drought, salinity and temperature extremes expected under predicted global climate change.

List of contents

Part I. Sustainability, Nutrition and Pharmaceuticals.- 1. Sustainable Agriculture and Plant Breeding.- 2. Breeding Crop Plants for Improved Human Nutrition through Biofortification: Progress and Prospects.- 3. Role of Genomics in Enhancing Nutrition Content of Cereals.- 4. Molecular Farming using Transgenic Approaches.- Part II. Forage and Tree Traits.- 5. Forages: Ecology, Breeding Objectives and Procedures.- 6. Breeding vis-à-vis Genomics of Tropical Tree Crops.- 7. Coconut Breeding in India.- Part III. Abiotic Stress Tolerance.- 8. Molecular Breeding to Improve Plant Resistance to Abiotic Stresses.- 9. Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) Marker for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants.- 10. Transgenic Approach for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants.- 11. Breeding Strategies to Enhance Drought Tolerance in Crops.- 12. Breeding Strategies for Enhanced Plant Tolerance to Heat Stress.- 13. QTLs for Genetic Improvement under Global Climate Changes.- 14. Genotype x Environment Interaction Implication: A Case Study of Durum Wheat Breeding in Iran.- Part IV. Biotic Stress Resistance.- 15. Breeding Strategies for Improving Plant Resistance to Diseases.- 16. Breeding and Genetics of Resistance to Fusarium Wilt in Melon.- 17. Viral, Fungal and Bacterial Disease Resistance in Transgenic Plants.- 18. Current Status of Bacillus thuringiensis:Insecticidal Crystal Proteins and Transgenic Crops.- Index.

Product details

• Assisted by: Jameel M. Al-Khayri (Editor), Shri Mohan Jain (Editor), Dennis V Johnson (Editor), Dennis V. Johnson (Editor), Shr Mohan Jain (Editor), Shri Mohan Jain (Editor), Dennis V Johnson (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2018
• EAN: 9783319794068
• ISBN: 978-3-31-979406-8
• No. of pages: 707
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 237 mm x 34 mm
• Weight: 1296 g
• Illustrations: XII, 707 p. 66 illus., 53 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food; Biotechnologie, Botanik und Pflanzenwissenschaften, B, biotechnology, Agriculture, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Botany & plant sciences, Plant breeding, Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Plant Biotechnology