Description
QTL Mapping in Crop Improvement: Present Progress and Future Perspectives presents advancements in QTL breeding for biotic and abiotic stresses and nutritional improvement in a range of crop plants. The book presents a roadmap for future breeding for resilience to various stresses and improvement in nutritional quality. Crops such as rice, wheat, maize, soybeans, common bean, and pigeon pea are the major staple crops consumed globally, hence fulfilling the nutritional requirements of global populations, particularly in the under-developed world, is extremely important. Sections cover the challenges facing maximized production of these crops, including diseases, insect damage, drought, heat, salinity and mineral toxicity.Covering globally important crops including maize, wheat, rice, barley, soybean, common bean and pigeon pea, this book will be an important reference for those working in agriculture and crop improvement.- Uses the latest molecular markers to identify QTLs/genes responsible for biotic and abiotic stress tolerance in plants- Includes multiple core crops for efficient comparison and translational learning- Provides a ready reference for improving quality traits through the use of the latest technologies
Table of Contents
1. Recent advances in Molecular markers for QTL mapping in crops plants2. A Statistical Perspective of Gene Set Analysis with Trait Specific QTL in Molecular Crop Breeding3. Crop improvement using QTLian breeding against Colletotrichum truncatum4. Molecular breeding for heat and drought stress in Maize: Revisiting the progress and acheivements5. Genome-wide QTL detection for biotic stress resistance in maize6. Harnessing QTLian breeding for quality improvement in maize: Recent advances7. Abiotic stress tolerance in wheat: Molecular breeding perspectives8. Advances in Molecular breeding for biotic stress tolerance in Wheat9. Drought stress tolerance in Wheat: Recent QTL mapping advances10. Wheat biofortification: A molecular breeding outlook11. Identification of tolerance for Wheat Rusts: Insights in recent QTL mapping efforts12. Genetic studies on cold and hypoxia Stress in Rice13. Rice biotic stress tolerance Recent Advances in molecular breeding approaches14. QTL mapping for Salinity Stress in Rice: Present status and future prospects15. Genetic Improvement of Rice grain Quality16. Translating Genetics into Genomics: From QTL Identification to Candidate Gene Discovery in Rice17. Salinity stress tolerance in barley: Recent advances in QTL mapping18. Barley drought stress improvement using advanced molecular breeding tools19. Quantitative genetic advances for disease resistance in soybean20. Molecular breeding for development of drought stress tolerance in Soybean21. Common bean breeding advances utilizing the recent advances in QTL mapping22. Genomics assisted breeding Pigeon pea improvement23. Molecular breeding for groundnut (Peanut) improvement: Present status and future prospects24. Sorghum Improvement using molecular breeding approaches25. QTL mapping studies for Small Millets Improvement
