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Fundamentals of Field Crop Breeding

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Maize has emerged as an important crop for food, feed and various applications. Utilization of hybrid technology has resulted in a quantum jump in grain production worldwide. However, ever-increasing population pressure coupled with climate change warrant many fold increase in productivity in a shorter time frame. Emergence of newer diseases and insect-pests further pose a great challenge to even sustain the production. Malnutrition has become a major health issue, thereby causing severe socio-economic losses. However, discovery of new genes and quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for higher grain yield, plant architecture, resistance/tolerance to various biotic and abiotic stresses, nutritional quality and specialty traits, and also availability of suitable donors provide great opportunity to breed improved hybrids with higher productivity, better resilience to biotic and abiotic stresses, and higher nutritional quality. Genomics-assisted breeding, doubled haploid and gene editing technology provide great impetus to further accelerate the breeding cycle. Here, we discussed the present status, opportunities and challenges in maize breeding.

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Hossain, F. et al. (2022). Maize Breeding. In: Yadava, D.K., Dikshit, H.K., Mishra, G.P., Tripathi, S. (eds) Fundamentals of Field Crop Breeding. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9257-4_4

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