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.
Table of Content
Foreword.- Preface.- Efficient Breeding of Pulse Crops.- Advances in Chickpea Breeding and Genomics for Varietal Development and Traits Improvement in India.- Conventional and Biotechnological Approaches for Trait Targeted Improvement in Lentil.- Updates Pigeonpea Breeding and Genomics for Yield Improvement in India.- ‘Genomics-Assisted Breeding Green Gram (Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek) for Accelerating Genetic Gain’.- Breeding For High Yielding and Disease Resistant Urdbean Cultivars.- Lentil Breeding in Genomic Era: Present Status and Future Prospects.- Chickpea Breeding for Abiotic Stress: Breeding Tools and ‘Omics’ Approaches for Enhancing Genetic Gain.- Recent Advances in Mungbean Breeding – A Perspective.- Genetic Advancement in Dry Pea (Pisum Sativum L.): Retrospect and Prospect.- Translational Genomics and Breeding in Soybean.- Efficient Improvement in an Orphan Legume, Horsegram, Macrotyloma uniflorum (Lam.) Verdi, using Conventional and Molecular Approaches.- Molecular and Conventional Breeding Strategies for Improving Biotic Stress Resistance in Common Bean.- Index.
About the author
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 Ph D 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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