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.
1. Title of Book - p. i 2. Cover image - p. i 3. Title page - p. ii 4. Table of Contents - p. iii 5. Copyright - p. iii 6. Contributors - p. ix 7. Chapter 1. Recent advances in molecular marker technology for QTL mapping in plants - p. 11 8. Chapter 2. A statistical perspective of gene set analysis with trait-specific QTL in molecular crop breeding - p. 23 9. Crop improvement against Colletotrichum truncatum using molecular breeding approaches - p. 45 10. Chapter 4. Molecular breeding for drought and heat stress in maize: Revisiting the progress and achievements - p. 62 11. Chapter 5. Molecular breeding for improving yield in maize: Recent advances and future perspectives - p. 75 12. Abiotic stress tolerance in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.): Molecular breeding perspectives - p. 106 13. Chapter 7. Advances in QTL mapping for biotic stress tolerance in wheat - p. 138 14. Chapter 8. Drought stress tolerance in wheat: Recent QTL mapping advances - p. 149 15. Chapter 9. Wheat biofortification: A molecular breeding outlook - p. 168 16. Chapter 10. Identification of tolerance for wheat rusts: Insights in recent QTL mapping efforts - p. 203 17. Chapter 11. Abiotic and biotic stress tolerance in rice: Recent advances in molecular breeding approaches - p. 219 18. Chapter 12. Genetic improvement of rice grain quality - p. 239 19. Chapter 13. Translating genetics into genomics: From QTL identification to candidate gene discovery in rice - p. 257 20. Chapter 14. Recent progress in molecular breeding approaches to improve drought tolerance in barley - p. 289 21. Chapter 15. Molecular breeding for the development of drought stress tolerance in soybean - p. 311 22. Chapter 16. Molecular breeding for groundnut (peanut) improvement: Present status and future prospects - p. 331 23. Chapter 17. Common bean disease improvement using QTL mapping - p. 355 24. Chapter 18. Small millet improvement using molecular breeding approaches - p. 377 25. Chapter 19. An advanced breeding approach toward Sorghum improvement - p. 385 26. Index - p. 395
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.
1. Title of Book - p. i 2. Cover image - p. i 3. Title page - p. ii 4. Table of Contents - p. iii 5. Copyright - p. iii 6. Contributors - p. ix 7. Chapter 1. Recent advances in molecular marker technology for QTL mapping in plants - p. 11 8. Chapter 2. A statistical perspective of gene set analysis with trait-specific QTL in molecular crop breeding - p. 23 9. Crop improvement against Colletotrichum truncatum using molecular breeding approaches - p. 45 10. Chapter 4. Molecular breeding for drought and heat stress in maize: Revisiting the progress and achievements - p. 62 11. Chapter 5. Molecular breeding for improving yield in maize: Recent advances and future perspectives - p. 75 12. Abiotic stress tolerance in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.): Molecular breeding perspectives - p. 106 13. Chapter 7. Advances in QTL mapping for biotic stress tolerance in wheat - p. 138 14. Chapter 8. Drought stress tolerance in wheat: Recent QTL mapping advances - p. 149 15. Chapter 9. Wheat biofortification: A molecular breeding outlook - p. 168 16. Chapter 10. Identification of tolerance for wheat rusts: Insights in recent QTL mapping efforts - p. 203 17. Chapter 11. Abiotic and biotic stress tolerance in rice: Recent advances in molecular breeding approaches - p. 219 18. Chapter 12. Genetic improvement of rice grain quality - p. 239 19. Chapter 13. Translating genetics into genomics: From QTL identification to candidate gene discovery in rice - p. 257 20. Chapter 14. Recent progress in molecular breeding approaches to improve drought tolerance in barley - p. 289 21. Chapter 15. Molecular breeding for the development of drought stress tolerance in soybean - p. 311 22. Chapter 16. Molecular breeding for groundnut (peanut) improvement: Present status and future prospects - p. 331 23. Chapter 17. Common bean disease improvement using QTL mapping - p. 355 24. Chapter 18. Small millet improvement using molecular breeding approaches - p. 377 25. Chapter 19. An advanced breeding approach toward Sorghum improvement - p. 385 26. Index - p. 395
