Smart Breeding

<p>This new volume focuses on novel breeding and biotechnological approaches for crop improvement covering recent advances in molecular breeding and plant breeding such as pre-breeding reverse breeding allele mining next-generation sequencing etc. The authors consider the important necessity and development of climate-resilient crops that can withstand hostility or adversities of climate without substantially compromising yield and discuss ways to mitigate plant stress.</p><p>The recent developments in breeding and biotechnological approaches concerning crop improvement that are discussed in the book include molecular markers their genesis and their significant applications for crop improvement; QTL mapping a modern breeding approach for mapping quantitative traits; pulse molecular breeding and genomics; and approaches for precise gene alterations in the genome of organisms by using genome editing.</p><p>Other techniques include reverse breeding a technique that allows breeders to develop parental lines directly from the heterozygous plant within a shorter time frame; pre-breeding approaches for biotic and abiotic stress management in crop plants; allele mining as a way to find existing variations in an organism’s gene pool by scanning the entire gene; marker-assisted selection where molecular markers have played a significant role in accelerating breeding programs; and next-generation sequencing (NGS) platforms in crop improvement where the authors summarize the technical know-how of each sequencing platform and its merits and demerits.</p><p>The book introduces the design and importance of Mutmap and its variant in modern breeding a novel gene mapping approaches that allows rapid identification of causal nucleotide changes of mutants by whole-genome resequencing.</p><p>Examples and case studies of the various approaches are included as well with several examples of marker-assisted selection of rice and maize crop and other agriculturally important crops.</p><p>This informative volume will enhance readers’ knowledge about the recent developments in breeding and biotechnological approaches concerning crop improvement.</p>