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Mutants as a Genetic Resource for Future Crop Improvement

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Enhanced crop production is seriously needed to meet the challenges of food security imposed by the rapidly increasing human population around the globe. Unpredictable climatic conditions, depleting water resources and finite arable land limit crop production. Thus the development of new crop varieties with improved yield and resistant to biotic and abiotic stresses will make a vital contribution to food security. Induced mutagenesis has played a pivotal role in ensuring food security by creating 3218 mutant varieties around the world. Mutagenesis combined with advanced molecular biology techniques and in vitro culture methods have resulted in enhanced food production. Mutant germplasm resources have been developed for different crop plants and are freely available to speed up crop improvement programs. These mutant resources are also being used for functional genomics studies, molecular breeding and a greater understanding of the molecular basis of other biological process.

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  1. Faculty of Life and Allied Health Sciences, Glocal University, Mirzapur Pole, Saharanpur, 247121, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Mohd Gulfishan (Assistant Professor)

  2. Department of Education, Government of Jammu and Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir, India

    Tariq Ahmad Bhat

  3. Center of Excellence in Environmental Studies, King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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Gulfishan, M., Bhat, T.A., Oves, M. (2015). Mutants as a Genetic Resource for Future Crop Improvement. In: Al-Khayri, J., Jain, S., Johnson, D. (eds) Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies: Breeding, Biotechnology and Molecular Tools. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22521-0_4

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