Breeding Innovations in Field Crops

Agricultural progress has always been anchored in the continuous evolution of crop breeding. With the world facing complex challenges such as climate change soil degradation increasing population and food security concerns the demand for resilient high-yielding and resource-efficient crop varieties has never been greater. It is in this context that the book Breeding Innovations in Field Crops has been conceived and compiled.This book presents a comprehensive overview of both traditional and cutting-edge plant breeding strategies aimed at enhancing the productivity and sustainability of field crops. Beginning with the foundational concepts of plant breeding the text explores the vast spectrum of crop improvement methods from classical selection and hybridization to modern biotechnological tools such as marker-assisted selection gene editing and molecular breeding.