Advanced Molecular Plant Breeding: Meeting the Challenge of Food Security

by D.N. Bharadwaj (Editor)

Overview

This new volume provides a better understanding of molecular plant breeding in order to boost the quality of agriculture produce, to increase crop yields and to provide nutritious food for everyone by 2050. Scientists believe the challenge can be met by implementing new and improved techniques of quantitative trait inheritance in plant breeding. Integrating genomics and molecular biology into appropriate tools and methodologies can help to create genetically engineered plants, such as by using biotic and abiotic stress tolerance, molecular markers, ‘-omics’ technology, and genome editing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781351358460
Publisher:	Apple Academic Press
Publication date:	10/29/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	700
File size:	16 MB
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About the Author

D. N. Bharadwaj, PhD, is currently an expert and examiner at several Indian universities and a reviewer for various scientific journals in India and abroad. He was formerly Professor of Plant Sciences at Haramaya University, Ethiopia (Africa), under the United Nations Development Program (UNPD) and was also Professor of Biology under a UNDP program at the Eritrea Institute of Technology, Asmara, Eritrea. In addition, he was Head of the Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding at C.S. Azad University of Agriculture & Technology, Kanpur, India.

Other former positions include lecturer at Kanpur University, where he taught several botany subjects to undergraduate and postgraduate students, and Scientist Pool Officer of the CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Govt. of India). He has made significant contributions to several crop breeding programs of ICAR (Indian Council of Agriculture Research) on such projects such as cotton, soybean, sorghum, groundnut, wheat, and barley etc. He also worked as a seed production officer at the National Seed Project of ICAR.

During his stay of more than nine years in foreign countries, he visited over 20 countries and had opportunities to visit various educational institutes, universities, and their laboratories. With over 40 years of teaching and research experience, he supervised above many agriculture students in MSc and PhD programs. Dr. Bharadwaj has participated in several national and international workshops, seminars, and symposia and presented 15 research papers. He has published over 40 refereed research papers in national and international journals, contributed several book chapters, and published a dozen or so textbooks and reference books with Indian and foreign publishers. He also awarded a best scientists award in 1998 by the American Biographical Institute, Inc. USA.

Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction to Advanced Molecular Plant Breeding 1. Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security: 2050 (Future Plant Breeding), D. N. Bharadwaj  2. Application of Genotype and Environmental Interactions in Plant Breeding, Chandra Nath Mishra, Satish Kumar, K. Venkatesh, Vikas Gupta, Devmani Bind, and Ajay Verma  3. Forward and Reverse Genetics in Plant Breeding, Masochon Raingam, Megha Bhatt, Akash Sinha, and Pushpa Lohani  Part II: The Role of Biodiversity in Plant Breeding 4. Biodiversity and Conservation of Plant Genetic Resources (in-Situ and Ex-Situ, Sheel Yadav, Chet Ram, and Dhammaprakash Pandhari Wankhede  5. Uses and Importance of Wide Hybridization in Crop Improvement, Vikas Gupta, Chandra Nath Mishra, and Satish Kumar  6. Application of Mutation Breeding in Plants, A. K. Mehta and M. H. Basha  7. Applications of Molecular Marker-Assisted Breeding in Plants, S. Pandey and V. C. Pandey  8. Importance of Genomic Selection in Crop Improvement and Future Prospects, Satish Kumar, Senthilkumar K Muthusamy, Chandra N Mishra, Vikas Gupta, and Karnam Venkatesh  Part III: Molecular Selection Tools in Plant Breeding  9. Application and Achievements of Recombinant DNA Technology in Crop Improvement, Rakesh Kumar, H. M. Mamrutha, Karnam Venkatesh, Kashi Nath Tiwari, and Satish Kumar  10. Plant Tissue Culture Techniques and Its Achievements, S. Pandey and V. C. Pandey  Part IV: Genetic Engineering and Tissue Culture in Plant Breeding  11. Breeding Strategies to Convert C3 Into C4 Plants, Akshaya Kumar Biswal, Arun Kumar Singh, Vivek Thakur, Satendra Kumar Mangrauthia, and Revathi Ponnuswamy  12. Molecular Pharming (Pharmaceuticals): Primary and Secondary Metabolites in Plants, Mir Zahoor Gul, Mohd Yasin Bhat, Anirudh Kumar, and Beedu Sashidhar Rao  13. Plant-Based Edible Vaccines: An Innovative Concept to Immunization, Rajeev Sharma, Nishi Mody, and Suresh P. Vyas  14. Breeding for Nutritional Quality Enhancement in Crops: Biofortification and Molecular Farming, Rahul Priyadarshi, Hitendra Kumar Patel, and Anirudh Kumar  Part IV: Recent Techniques in Advanced Molecular Plant Breeding  15. Terminator Technology (GURT Technology), D. R. Mehta and A. K. Nandha  16. Omics in Plant Breeding, D. R. Mehta and Ramesh Kumar  17. RNA Interference (RNAI) Technology in Biology and Plant Breeding, Dinesh Narayan Bharadwaj  18. Genome Editing in Plant Breeding, D. R. Mehta and A. K. Nandha  19. Nanobiotechnology in Agriculture, D. N. Bharadwaj and Sanjay Kumar Singh.

Editorial Reviews

An outstanding compilation of genetics and genomics that can drive progress in modern plant breeding. The chapters are well designed by several specialist scientists/breeders from diverse specialized areas in the field of plant breeding. A wonderful job in integrating information about traditional and molecular plant breeding approaches. I hope this encyclopedic handbook is poised to become a benchmark reference for experienced breeders, researchers, teachers and students alike.”

— From the Foreword by M. S. Swaminathan, Founder Chairman, M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation

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