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Molecular Breeding for Sustainable Crop Improvement

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The world population is estimated to reach to more than 10 billion by the year 2050. These projections pose a challenging situation for the agricultural scientists to increase crops productivity to meet the growing food demands. The unavailability and/or inaccessibility to appropriate gene pools with desired traits required to carry out genetic improvement of various crop species make this task formidable for the plant breeders. Incidentally, most of the desired genes reside in the wild genetic relatives of the crop species. Therefore, exploration and characterization of wild genetic resources of important crop species is vital for the efficient utilization of these gene pools for sustainable genetic improvements to assure food security. Further, understanding the myriad complexities of genic and genomic interactions among species, more particularly of wild relatives of crop species and/or phylogenetically distant germplasm, can provide the necessary inputs to increase the effectiveness of genetic improvement through traditional and/or genetic engineering methods. This book provides comprehensive and latest insights on the evolutionary genesis of diversity, access and its utilization in the evolution of various crop species. A comprehensive account of various crops, origin, exploitation of the primary, secondary and tertiary gene pools through breeding, biosystematical, cytogenetical and molecular phylogenetical relationships, and genetic enhancement through biotechnological interventions among others have been provided as the necessary underpinnings to consolidate information on the effective and sustainable utilization of the related genetic resources. The book stresses upon the importance of wild germplasm exploration, characterization and exploitation in the assimilation of important crop species. The book is especially intended for students and scientists working on the genetic improvement of crop species. Plant Breeders, Geneticists, Taxonomists, Molecular Biologists and Plant Biotechnologists working on crop species are going to find this book very useful.
The world population is estimated to reach to more than 10 billion by the year 2050. These projections pose a challenging situation for the agricultural scientists to increase crops productivity to meet the growing food demands. The unavailability and/or inaccessibility to appropriate gene pools with desired traits required to carry out genetic improvement of various crop species make this task formidable for the plant breeders. Incidentally, most of the desired genes reside in the wild genetic relatives of the crop species. Therefore, exploration and characterization of wild genetic resources of important crop species is vital for the efficient utilization of these gene pools for sustainable genetic improvements to assure food security. Further, understanding the myriad complexities of genic and genomic interactions among species, more particularly of wild relatives of crop species and/or phylogenetically distant germplasm, can provide the necessary inputs to increase the effectiveness of genetic improvement through traditional and/or genetic engineering methods. This book provides comprehensive and latest insights on the evolutionary genesis of diversity, access and its utilization in the evolution of various crop species. A comprehensive account of various crops, origin, exploitation of the primary, secondary and tertiary gene pools through breeding, biosystematical, cytogenetical and molecular phylogenetical relationships, and genetic enhancement through biotechnological interventions among others have been provided as the necessary underpinnings to consolidate information on the effective and sustainable utilization of the related genetic resources. The book stresses upon the importance of wild germplasm exploration, characterization and exploitation in the assimilation of important crop species. The book is especially intended for students and scientists working on the genetic improvement of crop species. Plant Breeders, Geneticists, Taxonomists, Molecular Biologists and Plant Biotechnologists working on crop species are going to find this book very useful.
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VerlagSpringer EN
EinbandKartonierter Einband (Kt)
Erscheinungsjahr2018
Seitenangabe478 S.
AusgabekennzeichenEnglisch
AbbildungenXI, 478 p. 56 illus., 12 illus. in color., schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, farbige Illustrationen
MasseH23.5 cm x B15.5 cm 1'004 g
CoverlagSpringer (Imprint/Brand)
ReiheSustainable Development and Biodiversity
AutorRajpal, Vijay Rani (Hrsg.) / Rao, S. Rama (Hrsg.) / Raina, S.N. (Hrsg.)

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Über den Autor Vijay Rani (Hrsg.) Rajpal

Dr. Vijay Rani Rajpal is a professor in  the Botany Department, Hansraj College, Delhi University, Delhi, India, and has approximately 25 years of research experience in working on population biology, phylogenetics, and diversity of plants. She has 45 published research papers, review articles, and book chapters  and  has edited 4 books on molecular diversity, abiotic stress mitigation,  and improvement of plants published by Springer Switzerland. She has guided Ph.D. students and successfully completed a number of research projects funded by various agencies of the Government of India. She is a reviewer of several reputed national and international research journals and invited guest editor for a thematic issue of  Frontiers in  Genetics.Dr. Ishwar Singh, a trained mycologist, has been researching in the field of microbiology with special focus on mycotoxins and characterization of phytopathogens and their biocontrol for  the last 20 years. He was a visiting faculty in the Department of Plant Pathology and microbiology, Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, Iowa, USA (2014-15,  Raman Research Fellowship). He has also been a recipient of UGC Research Award (2013).  Currently, he is working as an associate professor in the Department of Botany at Hansraj College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India. He has published 30 research papers and articles and successfully completed a number of research projects. He is a member of the editorial board of  many journals. Dr. Shrishail S. Navi works in the Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, and the Department of Entomology, Iowa State University (ISU), as research scientist III. His focus is on managing major soilborne pathogens of soybean, corn, field pea, and spinach. His research is supported by industry dollars (Avg. $88K/year). He has published books, bulletins, and book chapters (16); journal articles on soybean (27), sorghum (29), pearl millet (16), and wheat (15); and extension articles on soybean (35). He is a fellow of Indian Phytopathological Society, link scientist of CAB International, editor of Indian Phytopathology (2015-2020), and reviewer of several national and international journals. Prior to joining ISU in 2003, he worked at the ICRISAT for 14 years.

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