Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies: Breeding, Biotechnology and Molecular Tools

Part I. Genetic Resource Utilization and Conservation

1. Plant Domestication and Utilization: The Case of the Pampa Biome
Mercedes Rivas, Federico Condón

2. Decentralized Collaborative Plant Breeding for Utilization and Conservation of Neglected and Underutilized Crop Genetic Resources
Alberto Camacho-Henriquez, Friederike Kraemer, Gea Galluzzi, Stef Haan, Matthias Jäger, Anja Christinck

3. Plant Cryopreservation for Biotechnology and Breeding
Elena Popova, Mukund Shukla, Haeng Hoon Kim, Praveen K. Saxena

4. Mutants as a Genetic Resource for Future Crop Improvement
Mohd Gulfishan, Tariq Ahmad Bhat, Mohammad Oves

Part II. Breeding Strategies

5. Conventional Plant Breeding Principles and Techniques
George Acquaah

6. Applying Epigenetics in Plant Breeding: Balancing Genome Stability and Phenotypic Plasticity
Estelle Jaligot, Alain Rival

7. Progress and Perspectives of Distant Heterosis in Rice
Deming Jin, Tondi Yacouba Nassirou

8. Forward and Reverse Genetics in Crop Breeding
Joanna Jankowicz-Cieslak, Bradley J. Till

9. Doubled Haploid Breeding in Cereals
D. Gavin Humphreys, Ron E. Knox

Part III. In Vitro Culture and Transgenic Approaches

10. Applications of In Vitro Techniques in Plant Breeding
Zul Zulkarnain, Tanya Tapingkae, Acram Taji

11. Induced Mutations in Plant Breeding
H. Dayton Wilde

12. Alternative to Transgenesis: Cisgenesis and Intragenesis
Ankita Singh, Meenakshi Joshi, E. Lamalakshmi Devi

13. Transgenic Pyramiding for Crop Improvement
Bingliang Wan

14. RNAi Technology: A Potential Tool in Plant Breeding
Mohammad Abhary, Adel Rezk

Part IV. Molecular Breeding

15. Molecular Marker-Assisted Breeding: A Plant Breeder’s Review
Guo-Liang Jiang

16. Mutant-Based Reverse Genetics for Functional Genomics of Non-model Crops
Toyoaki Anai

17. Prospects of Functional Genomics in Sugarcane
Ram Kushal Singh, Sujeet Pratap Singh

18. Potentials of Proteomics in Crop Breeding
Aayudh Das, Bimal Paudel, Jai S. Rohila

19. Utilization of Diverse Sequencing Panels for Future Plant Breeding
Aysen Yumurtaci

20. Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) Tools and Impact in Plant Breeding
Vinay K. Singh, Anil K. Singh, Sakshi Singh, Brahma D. Singh

21. Molecular Breeding for Genetic Improvement of Cotton (Gossypium spp.)
N. Manikanda Boopathi, Selvam Sathish, Ponnaikoundar Kavitha, Ponnusami Dachinamoorthy, Rajasekar Ravikesavan

Avainsanat: Life Sciences, Agriculture, Plant Breeding/Biotechnology