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Plant breeders face multiple global challenges that affect food security, productivity, accessibility, and nutritional quality. One major challenge for plant breeders is developing environmentally resilient crop cultivars in response to rapid shifts in cultivation conditions and resources due to climate change. Over the world, people’s diets depend heavily on vegetables. To develop novel vegetable cultivars with beneficial properties, such as resistance to/resilience to biotic and abiotic challenges, high return, and an increased substance of combinations beneficial to human wellness, conventional raising approaches have been widely used. Numerous plant genomes have been sequenced and collected because of the development of thick and super-thick subatomic linkage maps, identification of primary variations, and use of subatomic markers in rearing projects. These developments have been made possible by the advancement of high-throughput sequencing stages and the adoption of information logical techniques. For the purpose of agricultural development, chromosomal regions of characteristics and QTLs (quantitative trait loci) associated with plant phenotypic varieties have been identified using linkage planning and all-inclusive affiliation planning investigations. In this particular case, hereditary variety analysis provides a fantastic advantage that improves a thorough understanding of hereditary variety and advances preservation techniques. Understanding genetic diversities among various vegetable plants is important because of not only their agricultural importance, but also their economic values. For example, Linkage Mapping, Genome-Wide Association Mapping, QTLs, and Conservation Strategies. This chapter also deals with up-to-date information on the status of genomics and marker-assisted improvement of vegetable crops with the focus on tomato, pepper, eggplant, lettuce, spinach, cucumber, and several other vegetable crops.
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Bhatti, M.H.T. et al. (2024). Genetic Diversity of Vegetable Crops and Utilization in Food and Nutritional Security. In: Al-Khayri, J.M., Jain, S.M., Penna, S. (eds) Sustainable Utilization and Conservation of Plant Genetic Diversity. Sustainable Development and Biodiversity, vol 35. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-5245-8_6
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