Wheat Wild Relatives: Developing Abiotic Stress Tolerance under Climate Change presents a state-of-the-art outline of the problem, including issues, opportunities, and modern developments in the utilization of Wild Wheat Relatives (WWR) and related neglected species for wheat crop improvement, specifically focusing on environmental constraints. The book comprehensively discusses different wheat wild relatives, including major genus Triticum and Aegilops and their utilization in mitigating different environmental constraints using agronomic, physiological, and molecular approaches. Chapters provide insights into the advancement in the deployment of wheat genetic resources, including wild relatives and neglected species for crop improvement towards environmental issues.
Wheat is a major staple food crop that has largely been focused for fulfilling the food requirements of world population during the Green revolution. Since then, it has come to cover more agricultural land than any other commercial crop. Continuously changing climatic conditions have drastically affected wheat production, with yields largely limited by environmental constraints. Theses production losses caused by crop vulnerability to climate change may be resolved by using wheat wild relatives that are closely related to cultivated genotypes and known for their beneficial traits.
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. iv 6. List of contributors - p. xiii 7. Chapter One. Insight into the wheat genetic resources with emphasis on Aegilops and Triticum species - p. 1 8. Chapter two. Exploring genetic variation for environmental stress tolerance in wheat wild species - p. 39 9. Chapter three. Advancement in genome sequencing of wheat wild relatives - p. 59 10. Chapter four. Potential of wild relatives of wheat: ideal gene pool for enhancing drought tolerance in modern wheat cultivars - p. 91 11. Chapter five. Wheat wild relatives: an untapped genetic resource for improvement of cold tolerance in wheat - p. 141 12. Chapter six. Utilization of wheat wild relatives for improving heat tolerance - p. 169 13. Chapter seven. Potential of wheat wild species for salinity tolerance improvement in modern wheat - p. 205 14. Chapter eight. Utilization of wheat wild relatives for improving boron stress tolerance - p. 223 15. Chapter nine. Agronomic, physiological, biochemical, and molecular approaches employed for successful utilization of wheat wild relatives for crop improvement - p. 245 16. Chapter ten. Utilization of wheat wild relatives for iron and zinc improvement in wheat crops - p. 277 17. Chapter eleven. Utilization of wheat wild relatives for improving ozone stress tolerance - p. 301 18. Chapter twelve. Utilization of wheat wild relatives for improving heavy metals stress tolerance - p. 325 19. Chapter thirteen. Use of wild relatives in breeding programs to develop climate resilient wheat - p. 361 20. Chapter Fourteen. Leveraging wild relatives of wheat to enhance end-use quality in a changing climate - p. 401 21. Chapter fifteen. Utilization of perennial wheat wild relatives for developing abiotic stress tolerance in modern wheat genotypes - p. 417 22. Index - p. 437
Wheat Wild Relatives: Developing Abiotic Stress Tolerance under Climate Change presents a state-of-the-art outline of the problem, including issues, opportunities, and modern developments in the utilization of Wild Wheat Relatives (WWR) and related neglected species for wheat crop improvement, specifically focusing on environmental constraints. The book comprehensively discusses different wheat wild relatives, including major genus Triticum and Aegilops and their utilization in mitigating different environmental constraints using agronomic, physiological, and molecular approaches. Chapters provide insights into the advancement in the deployment of wheat genetic resources, including wild relatives and neglected species for crop improvement towards environmental issues.
Wheat is a major staple food crop that has largely been focused for fulfilling the food requirements of world population during the Green revolution. Since then, it has come to cover more agricultural land than any other commercial crop. Continuously changing climatic conditions have drastically affected wheat production, with yields largely limited by environmental constraints. Theses production losses caused by crop vulnerability to climate change may be resolved by using wheat wild relatives that are closely related to cultivated genotypes and known for their beneficial traits.
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. iv 6. List of contributors - p. xiii 7. Chapter One. Insight into the wheat genetic resources with emphasis on Aegilops and Triticum species - p. 1 8. Chapter two. Exploring genetic variation for environmental stress tolerance in wheat wild species - p. 39 9. Chapter three. Advancement in genome sequencing of wheat wild relatives - p. 59 10. Chapter four. Potential of wild relatives of wheat: ideal gene pool for enhancing drought tolerance in modern wheat cultivars - p. 91 11. Chapter five. Wheat wild relatives: an untapped genetic resource for improvement of cold tolerance in wheat - p. 141 12. Chapter six. Utilization of wheat wild relatives for improving heat tolerance - p. 169 13. Chapter seven. Potential of wheat wild species for salinity tolerance improvement in modern wheat - p. 205 14. Chapter eight. Utilization of wheat wild relatives for improving boron stress tolerance - p. 223 15. Chapter nine. Agronomic, physiological, biochemical, and molecular approaches employed for successful utilization of wheat wild relatives for crop improvement - p. 245 16. Chapter ten. Utilization of wheat wild relatives for iron and zinc improvement in wheat crops - p. 277 17. Chapter eleven. Utilization of wheat wild relatives for improving ozone stress tolerance - p. 301 18. Chapter twelve. Utilization of wheat wild relatives for improving heavy metals stress tolerance - p. 325 19. Chapter thirteen. Use of wild relatives in breeding programs to develop climate resilient wheat - p. 361 20. Chapter Fourteen. Leveraging wild relatives of wheat to enhance end-use quality in a changing climate - p. 401 21. Chapter fifteen. Utilization of perennial wheat wild relatives for developing abiotic stress tolerance in modern wheat genotypes - p. 417 22. Index - p. 437
