Gene Pool Diversity and Crop Improvement

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Leymus racemosus: A Potential Species of Gene Pool Enrichment for Wheat Improvement

   • Yasir Serag Alnor Gorafi, Hisashi Tsujimoto

   Pages 1-15

3. Arachis Gene Pools and Genetic Improvement in Groundnut

   • Anurudh K. Singh, S. N. Nigam

   Pages 17-75

4. Genetic Resources of Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) and Their Utilization

   • Deepak Ohri

   Pages 77-104

5. Genetic Improvement of Cotton

   • S Manickam, A. H. Prakash

   Pages 105-161

6. Genetic Diversity and Germplasm Patterns in Brassica juncea

   • S. S. Banga, Shashi Banga

   Pages 163-186

7. Potato Diversity and Its Genetic Enhancement

   • Avinash Srivastava, Vinay Bhardwaj, BP Singh, SM Paul Khurana

   Pages 187-226

8. Genome Plasticity in Buckwheat

   • Nikhil K. Chrungoo, Lashaihun Dohtdong, Upasna Chettry

   Pages 227-239

9. Origin of Genetic Variability and Improvement of Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.)

   • Atul Bhargava, Deepak Ohri

   Pages 241-270

10. Emerging Invaders from the Cultivated Croplands: An Invasion Perspective

    • Neha Goyal, Gyan Prakash Sharma

    Pages 271-290

11. Chromosome Engineering for High Precision Crop Improvement

    • Harinder Kumar Chaudhary, Vineeta Kaila, Shoukat Ahmad Rather, Navdeep Singh Jamwal, Anila Badiyal

    Pages 291-323

12. Overview of Progress and Potentials of Improving Commonly Used Allium species in India

    • R. N. Gohil, Veenu Kaul

    Pages 325-365

13. Utilization of Germplasm for the Genetic Improvement of Mung bean [Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek]: The Constraints and the Opportunities

    • Ruchi Vir, Suman Lakhanpaul, Sonal Malik, Sooraj Umdale, Kangila Venkataramana Bhat

    Pages 367-391

14. Genetic Improvement in the Genus Eleusine

    • Renuka Agrawal, Ankur Maheshwari

    Pages 393-413

15. An Ancient Medicinal Plant at the Crossroads of Modern Horticulture and Genetics: Genetic Resources and Biotechnology of Sea Buckthorn (Hippophae L., Elaeagnaceae)

    • Igor V. Bartish

    Pages 415-446

16. Unlocking the Potential of Genetic Resources for Improvement of Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.): The Current Scenario

    • Vibhuti Singh, Sachin Kumar, Amrita Singh, Niti Pathak Bhaduri, Kangila Venkataramana Bhat, Suman Lakhanpaul

    Pages 447-479

17. Back Matter

    Pages 481-484

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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.

• Gene pool diversity
• Germplasm resources
• Breeding
• Alien gene introgression
• Crop improvement
• Systematic Botany

• Delhi University, Delhi, India

  Vijay Rani Rajpal

• Dept. of Biotech and Bioinformatics, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India

  S. Rama Rao

• Amity University of Biotechnology, Noida, India

  S.N. Raina

Raina’s quality research is evidenced by his publications in journals of international repute like Gene, AOB Plants, Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Molecular Breeding, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Theoretical and Applied Genetics, Genome, Plant Breeding, Euphytica, Genetica, Heredity, Journal of Heredity, Cytogenetic and Genome Research, Methods in Cell Science, In Vitro Cell. Dev. Biol. – Plants, Plant Systematics and Evolution, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Caryologia, Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, Plant Cell Reports, Annals of Botany among others. He has 135 publications, including 111 research papers, and 20 book chapters. The impact factor of his published papers ranges from 0.5 to 4.5 and the citation index touches nearly 2000. Raina has given invited seminars and keynote addresses in scientific forums in many countries, and has chaired symposia, seminars and scientific sessions in national and international conferences. He is aFellow of National Academy of Sciences (F.N.A.Sc), India, and is credited with 17 M.Phil and 23 Ph.D. thesis Dr Rani has published 20 research papers in international peer reviewed journals like Plant Cell Reports, Genome, Genetica, Plant Systematics and Evolution, In Vitro Cellular Developmental Biology (IVCDB) Plant , Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology . In addition, she has contributed five review papers in books published from Springer Verlag and Kluwer Acad. Publ. and CRC Press Ltd. Dr Rani has presented her research as an invited speaker in many national and international conferences. She is a member of International Society of Plant Morphologists and NewYork Academy of Sciences, USA Rao's research activity has been published (and still is) in international renowned journals.

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