Molecular Breedingfor Sustainable Crop Improvement, Volume 2 focuses on integration of advances in genetics, cytogenetics, molecular biology andbiotechnology aimed at alien gene introgression for genetic improvement ofmajor crop species at molecular level to help overcome the limitationsassociated with conventional plant breeding.
This book includes articles on the availabilityand application of modern genomic approaches, tools, and resources in aprecision breeding approach. The contributions involve theuse of molecular markers andlinkage, QTL and association mapping of agronomic traits to identify candidategenes and to design functional markers for marker assisted selection (MAS), genepyramiding using MAS coupled with marker assisted back cross breeding (MABB), nextgeneration sequencing (NGS) to generate genome wide markers and screen newalleles, and targeting induced local lesionsin genomes (TILLING) or ecotype TILLING (EcoTILLING) for the screening ofeither mutant or natural germplasm collections to integrate genomicinformation into directional and selective breeding in crops to maximizegenetic gains.
Breeders, taxonomists, geneticists,cytogeneticists, molecular biologists and biotechnologists are going to greatlybenefit from this book. We sincerely hope that this book will serve as amilestone in the precision breeding of crops to achieve meaningful plantgenetic improvement.
