Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies: Agronomic, Abiotic and Biotic Stress Traits

Part I. Sustainability, Nutrition and Pharmaceuticals

1. Sustainable Agriculture and Plant Breeding
Dinesh Narayan Bharadwaj

2. Breeding Crop Plants for Improved Human Nutrition Through Biofortification: Progress and Prospects
Prakash I. Gangashetty, Babu N. Motagi, Ramachandra Pavan, Mallikarjun B. Roodagi

3. Role of Genomics in Enhancing Nutrition Content of Cereals
Mehanathan Muthamilarasan, Manoj Prasad

4. Molecular Farming Using Transgenic Approaches
Ramandeep Kaur Jhinjer, Leela Verma, Shabir Hussain Wani, Satbir Singh Gosal

Part II. Forage and Tree Traits

5. Forages: Ecology, Breeding Objectives and Procedures
Saeed Rauf, Dorota Sienkiewicz-Paderewska, Dariusz P. Malinowski, M. Mubashar Hussain, Imtiaz Akram Khan Niazi, Maria Kausar

6. Breeding vis-à-vis Genomics of Tropical Tree Crops
Padmanabhan M. Priyadarshan

7. Coconut Breeding in India
Raman V. Nair, B. A. Jerard, Regi J. Thomas

Part III. Abiotic Stress Tolerance

8. Molecular Breeding to Improve Plant Resistance to Abiotic Stresses
Gundimeda J. N. Rao, Janga N. Reddy, Mukund Variar, Anumalla Mahender

9. Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) Marker for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants
Ratan S. Telem, Shabir H. Wani, Naorem Brajendra Singh, Raghunath Sadhukhan, Nirmal Mandal

10. Transgenic Approaches for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants
Shabir Hussain Wani, Saroj Kumar Sah, Mohammad Anwar Hossain, Vinay Kumar, Sena M. Balachandran

11. Breeding Strategies to Enhance Drought Tolerance in Crops
Saeed Rauf, Jameel M. Al-Khayri, Maria Zaharieva, Philippe Monneveux, Farghama Khalil

12. Breeding Strategies for Enhanced Plant Tolerance to Heat Stress
Viola Devasirvatham, Daniel K. Y. Tan, Richard M. Trethowan

13. QTLs for Genetic Improvement Under Global Climate Changes
Ramón Molina-Bravo, Alejandro Zamora-Meléndez

14. Genotype x Environment Interaction Implication: A Case Study of Durum Wheat Breeding in Iran
Reza Mohammadi, Ahmed Amri

Part IV. Biotic Stress Resistance

15. Breeding Strategies for Improving Plant Resistance to Diseases
Thomas Miedaner

16. Breeding and Genetics of Resistance to Fusarium Wilt in Melon
Ali Oumouloud, José M. Álvarez

17. Viral, Fungal and Bacterial Disease Resistance in Transgenic Plants
Vinod Saharan, Devendra Jain, Sunil Pareek, Ajay Pal, R. V. Kumaraswamy, Sarita Kumari Jakhar, Manvendra Singh

18. Current Status of Bacillus thuringiensis: Insecticidal Crystal Proteins and Transgenic Crops
Devendra Jain, Vinod Saharan, Sunil Pareek

Keywords: Life Sciences, Agriculture, Plant Breeding/Biotechnology