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- Provides detailed background in mutation breeding, the parasitic weed Striga
- Includes step-by-step, well-illustrated protocols for the laboratory
- Contributors to the book include global experts in the field
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Introduction to Mutation Breeding in Cereal Crops for Resistance to Striga
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Phenotyping to Identify Mutant Genotypes with Resistance to Striga
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Efficiency Enhancing Technologies
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Shoba Sivasankar has 30 years of experience leading and managing international agricultural R&D programs. She is currently the Head of Plant Breeding and Genetics at the Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of Nuclear Applications in Food and Agriculture and is based in Vienna, Austria. Prior to this, she was global Director for two CGIAR Research Programs, Dryland Cereals and Grain Legumes, and successfully led the design and merger of the two into a multimillion-dollar mega-programme involving eight international (CGIAR) centres. Before this she coordinated the maize transgenic pipeline for agronomic traits from discovery research to early product development at DuPont Pioneer, now Corteva, at its headquarters in Iowa, USA. In this role, she provided leadership for discovery research in Australia, China, India, Japan and at Wilmington, Delaware, and early product testing in the Americas. This included candidate gene discovery, genetic associations, high-throughput vector construction/plant transformation and high-throughput phenotyping. During her career at DuPont Pioneer, Shoba also managed her own laboratory on stress physiology and digestibility and provided leadership for the establishment of DuPont’s high-throughput phenotyping platform. Shoba is inventor in more than 100 patent applications, has authored several peer-reviewed publications, and edited books and special issues of journals. She did her PhD and post-doc at the University of Guelph, Canada, and MBA degree at the University of Iowa, USA.
Patrick J. Rich isa sorghum geneticist specializing in Striga resistance. He works at the University of Purdue in the laboratory of the 2009 World Food Prize Laureate, Gebisa Ejeta. Rich and his colleagues have identified several genes in sorghum controlling forage quality, drought and Striga resistance. He has received grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the International Atomic Energy Agency of the United Nations and the Rockefeller Foundation supporting his work on resistance to the parasitic weed Striga. Rich has co-authored 32 peer-reviewed publications, including 7 book chapters. His works have been cited in over 1000 publications. He received his Ph.D. in Plant Physiology from Purdue University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mutation Breeding and Efficiency Enhancing Technologies for Resistance to Striga in Cereals
Editors: Abdelbagi M. A. Ghanim, Shoba Sivasankar, Patrick J. Rich
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-68181-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: IAEA: International Atomic Energy Agency 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-68180-0Published: 19 December 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-68183-1Published: 19 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-68181-7Published: 18 December 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 182
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 93 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Pathology, Plant Genetics and Genomics, Agriculture