Overview
- Editors:
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S. Mohan Jain
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Department of Applied Biology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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D.S. Brar
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Institute (IRRI), Social Sciences Division, International Rice Research, Metro Manila, Philippines
- Deals with molecular tools in plant breeding, molecular marker assisted breeding, gene silencing, functional genomics and genetic engineering
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Table of contents (31 chapters)
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Genomics
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- Andrea Hricová, Pedro Robles, Víctor Quesada
Pages 437-467
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- Ludovít Škultéty, Maxym Danchenko, Anna Pret’ová, Martin Hajduch
Pages 469-491
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- Federica Maltese, Robert Verpoorte
Pages 493-510
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- Niranjani Jambunathan, Michael Puckette, Ramamurthy Mahalingam
Pages 511-524
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Transgenic Technologies
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Front Matter
Pages 526-526
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- Hiroyasu Ebinuma, Kazuya Nanto
Pages 527-543
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- R. Srinivasan, Dipnarayan Saha
Pages 545-577
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- Sandeep Kumar, William F. Thompson
Pages 579-590
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- Evert Jacobsen, Henk J. Schouten
Pages 591-611
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- Sunee Kertbundit, Miloslav Juříček, Timothy C. Hall
Pages 631-652
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- Masayuki Isshiki, Hiroaki Kodama
Pages 653-673
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- Kati Hanhineva, Asaph Aharoni
Pages 675-693
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- Yoshikazu Tanaka, Ryutaro Aida
Pages 695-717
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- Toshihiko Yamada, Ken-ichi Tamura, Xun Wang, Yukiko Aoyagi
Pages 719-744
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Back Matter
Pages 745-772
About this book
Most of the plant breeding programs aim to increase yield, disease and insect resistance, abiotic stress tolerance and to improve quality characteristics. The value of new plant breeding products and varieties in increasing food production has been demonstrated time and again. To meet growing need of ever increasing human population, we need to enhance food production for sustaining food supply. Furthermore, several biotic and abiotic stresses continue to threaten crop product- ity. Moreover with urbanization, land for cultivation is shrinking and several en- ronment concerns involving excessive use of fertilizers and agro-chemicals, soil and water pollution including water scarcity are key issues in increasing crop p- ductivity and food sustainability. Plant breeders therefore, has the major challenge how to increase crop productivity with limited land, limited water, limited che- cals and limited labour particularly in the context of global climate changes. In the genomics era, advances in molecular biology have opened new opportunities to accelerate plant breeding processes and in overcoming some of the above c- straints limiting crop productivity. Molecular markers have become important tools in the hands of plant breeders in marker assisted breeding and for enhancing the selection efficiency for various agronomic traits in precision ‘plant’ breeding.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Applied Biology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
S. Mohan Jain
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Institute (IRRI), Social Sciences Division, International Rice Research, Metro Manila, Philippines
D.S. Brar