Accelerated Plant Breeding, Volume 1: Cereal Crops, 1st Edition – FULL INSTANT DOWNLOAD | PDF DOCX EPUB

Name: Accelerated Plant Breeding, Volume 1: Cereal Crops
Edition: 1st Edition
ISBN-13: 9783030418656
ISBN-10: 3030418650
Addition ISBN: 3030418669, 9783030418663
Author(s): Satbir Singh Gosal; ‎Shabir Hussain Wani, Publisher: Springer, Copyright: 2020
Plant improvement has shifted its focus from yield, quality and disease resistance to factors that will enhance commerical export, such as early maturity, shelf life and better processing quality. Conventional plant breeding methods aiming at the improvement of a self-pollinating crop, such as wheat, usually take 10-12 years to develop and release of the new variety. During the past 10 years, significant advances have been made and accelerated methods have been developed for precision breeding and early release of crop varieties.  This work summarizes concepts dealing with germplasm enhancement and development of improved varieties based on innovative methodologies that include doubled haploidy, marker assisted selection, marker assisted background selection, genetic mapping, genomic selection, high-throughput genotyping, high-throughput phenotyping, mutation breeding, reverse breeding, transgenic breeding, shuttle breeding, speed breeding, low cost high-throughput field phenotyping, etc.  It is an important reference with special focus on accelerated development of improved crop varieties.