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Genetic Enhancement of Nutritional Traits in Rice Grains Through Marker-Assisted Selection and Quantitative Trait Loci

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Rice Research for Quality Improvement: Genomics and Genetic Engineering

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Rice is a basic staple food of most countries including developed and less developed nations, and more importantly, 90% of population relies on rice across South Asian countries. Global climate change, increased urbanization, drought, and desertification have resulted in the significant drop in the rice production and also prompted researchers to develop novel varieties with increased productivity. Hence, novel varieties with enriched nutritional composition may offer wide benefits and could be a potential step in eradicating malnutrition among the less developed nations. According to the “International Rice Research Institute (IRRI),” 843 varieties have been developed until now, which have been generated by using both conventional and molecular breeding techniques. Genetic markers are forerunner in the present-day agriculture production system, which has anonymously contributed in the production of novel varieties with additional accuracy, reliability, and rapidity. Thus, it has significantly contributed in precision plant breeding, and dependency on molecular techniques such as marker-assisted selection and quantitative trait loci is inevitable for enhanced crop productivity in the near future. In the present chapter, an elaborate case study involving recent developments in enhancing the nutritional quality of rice crop using marker-assisted selection and quantitative trait loci has been represented.

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  1. Department of Botany, Karnatak University, Dharwad, Karnataka, India

    Devarajan Thangadurai & Souhat Jabeen

  2. Rice Research Institute of Iran, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Rasht, Iran

    Mojtaba Kordrostami

  3. Department of Horticultural Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran

    Mojtaba Kordrostami

  4. Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biosciences, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

    Saher Islam

  5. Department of Environmental Science, Central University of Kerala, Kasaragod, Kerala, India

    Jeyabalan Sangeetha

  6. Department of Biological Sciences, Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, Maan, Jordan

    Abdel Rahman Mohammad Said Al-Tawaha

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Thangadurai, D., Kordrostami, M., Islam, S., Sangeetha, J., Al-Tawaha, A.R.M.S., Jabeen, S. (2020). Genetic Enhancement of Nutritional Traits in Rice Grains Through Marker-Assisted Selection and Quantitative Trait Loci. In: Roychoudhury, A. (eds) Rice Research for Quality Improvement: Genomics and Genetic Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5337-0_21

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