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Spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) Breeding: From Classical to Genomics-Centric Approach

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The nutritious leafy vegetable, spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) having diploid chromosome numbers, 2n = 2× = 12, is a versatile wind-pollinated crop which is rich in health-promoting minerals and vitamins. Majority of the spinach plants are dioecious in nature and it is gaining popularity throughout the world owing to nutrient content of this economically important cool season leafy crop. This crop is effected by several devastating biotic and abiotic stresses which need to be managed using the modern biotechnological tools. In this context, the breeding for overcoming these problems have gained momentum in the post-genomics era. Hence, numerous quantitative trait loci (QTLs), genes, and molecular markers linked with different phenotypic traits like leaf shape, flowering traits, nutritional traits, etc., have been identified in the past decades. But, still there is an urgent need to breed spinach for decreasing the anti-nutritional factors like oxalates, consumption of which can cause health issues. In the post-genomics era, plethora of genomic and sequence resources of spinach have been made available, which have the potential to accelerate spinach breeding program. Development of downy mildew-resistant cultivars of Spinach via introgression of NBS-LRR (nucleotide-binding site leucine-rich repeat) genes from wild allies have been made successful. In the past decade, the genomics have provided insight into sex evolution in spinach and various candidate miRNAs (micro RNAs) related to sex forms in spinach have been identified. In this chapter, we have provided detailed overview of progress made in spinach genetic improvement in the post-genomics era.

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Das, A., Rout, B.M., Datta, S., Singh, S., Munshi, A.D., Dey, S.S. (2023). Spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) Breeding: From Classical to Genomics-Centric Approach. In: Singh, S., Sharma, D., Sharma, S.K., Singh, R. (eds) Smart Plant Breeding for Vegetable Crops in Post-genomics Era . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5367-5_6

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