Advanced Molecular Plant Breeding
Meeting the Challenge of Food Security
D.N. Bharadwaj
ISBN: 978-1-774-63151-5
Publisher/Imprint: AAP, CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group)
Pages: 726
Format: Print/e-Book
Language: English
Edition/Volume: 1st
© Year: 2021
Publication date: March 2021
Price
£139.00
About the Book
This new volume, Advanced Molecular Plant Breeding: Meeting the Challenge of Food Security, aims to provide a better understanding of molecular plant breeding in order to boost the quality of agriculture produce, to increase crop yields and to provide nutritious food for everyone by 2050, when the global population is expected to reach a new height of about 10 billion. The challenge to provide quality food for such an increased population will be exacerbated by the depletion of natural resources and by shrinking arable land areas. However, scientists believe the challenge can be met by implementing new and improved techniques of quantitative trait inheritance in plant breeding. Integrating genomics and molecular biology into appropriate tools and methodologies can help to create genetically engineered plants, such as by using biotic and abiotic stress tolerance, molecular markers, -omics technology, and genome editing.
The milestone of whole genome sequencing from Arabidopsis to rice has opened the door to a new era of functional genomics, which aims to determine the functions of all the genes identified in their genomes, which will help in the improvement of crop species qualitatively and quantitatively in order to meet the ongoing challenges of doubling world food production by 2050.
The contributors to this book were selected from a wide and diverse range of institutions. They provide an abundance of new research and knowledge on advanced plant breeding tools and techniques.This important volume provides recent knowledge of advanced plant breeding tools researchers, teachers, graduate and post-graduate students in plant sciences, and those in plant biotechnology, applied botany, agricultural sciences, plant genetics and molecular biology.
Table of Contents
Foreword by M. S. Swaminathan, Founder Chairman; Ex-Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha)
Preface
Part I: Introduction to Advanced Molecular Plant Breeding
1. Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security: 2050 (Future Plant Breeding)
D. N. Bharadwaj
2. Application of Genotype and Environmental Interactions in Plant Breeding
Chandra Nath Mishra, Satish Kumar, K. Venkatesh, Vikas Gupta, Devmani Bind, and Ajay Verma
3. Forward and Reverse Genetics in Plant Breeding
Masochon Raingam, Megha Bhatt, Akash Sinha, and Pushpa Lohani
Part II: The Role of Biodiversity in Plant Breeding
4. Biodiversity and Conservation of Plant Genetic Resources (in-Situ and Ex-Situ)
Sheel Yadav, Chet Ram, and Dhammaprakash Pandhari Wankhede
5. Uses and Importance of Wide Hybridization in Crop Improvement
Vikas Gupta, Chandra Nath Mishra, and Satish Kumar
6. Application of Mutation Breeding in Plants
A. K. Mehta and M. H. Basha
7. Applications of Molecular Marker-Assisted Breeding in Plants
S. Pandey and V. C. Pandey
8. Importance of Genomic Selection in Crop Improvement and Future Prospects
Satish Kumar, Senthilkumar K Muthusamy, Chandra N Mishra, Vikas Gupta, and Karnam Venkatesh
Part III: Molecular Selection Tools in Plant Breeding
9. Application and Achievements of Recombinant DNA Technology in Crop Improvement
Rakesh Kumar, H. M. Mamrutha, Karnam Venkatesh, Kashi Nath Tiwari, and Satish Kumar
10. Plant Tissue Culture Techniques and Its Achievements
S. Pandey and V. C. Pandey
Part IV: Genetic Engineering and Tissue Culture in Plant Breeding
11. Breeding Strategies to Convert C3 Into C4 Plants
Akshaya Kumar Biswal, Arun Kumar Singh, Vivek Thakur, Satendra Kumar Mangrauthia, and Revathi Ponnuswamy
12. Molecular Pharming (Pharmaceuticals): Primary and Secondary Metabolites in Plants
Mir Zahoor Gul, Mohd Yasin Bhat, Anirudh Kumar, and Beedu Sashidhar Rao
13. Plant-Based Edible Vaccines: An Innovative Concept to Immunization
Rajeev Sharma, Nishi Mody, and Suresh P. Vyas
14. Breeding for Nutritional Quality Enhancement in Crops: Biofortification and Molecular Farming
Rahul Priyadarshi, Hitendra Kumar Patel, and Anirudh Kumar
Part IV: Recent Techniques in Advanced Molecular Plant Breeding
15. Terminator Technology (GURT Technology)
D. R. Mehta and A. K. Nandha
16. Omics in Plant Breeding
D. R. Mehta and Ramesh Kumar
17. RNA Interference (RNAI) Technology in Biology and Plant Breeding
Dinesh Narayan Bharadwaj
18. Genome Editing in Plant Breeding
D. R. Mehta and A. K. Nandha
19. Nanobiotechnology in Agriculture
D. N. Bharadwaj and Sanjay Kumar Singh
Index
About the Authors/Editors
D. N. Bharadwaj, PhD
Formerly Professor of Plant Sciences, Haramaya University, Ethiopia; Former Head, Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, C.S. Azad University of Agriculture & Technology, Kanpur, India
D. N. Bharadwaj, PhD, is currently an expert and examiner at several Indian universities and a reviewer for various scientific journals in India and abroad. He was formerly Professor of Plant Sciences at Haramaya University, Ethiopia (Africa), under the United Nations Development Program (UNPD) and was also Professor of Biology under a UNDP program at the Eritrea Institute of Technology, Asmara, Eritrea. In addition, he was Head of the Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding at C.S. Azad University of Agriculture & Technology, Kanpur, India. Other former positions include lecturer at Kanpur University, where he taught several botany subjects to undergraduate and postgraduate students, and Scientist Pool Officer of the CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Govt. of India). He has made significant contributions to several crop breeding programs of ICAR (Indian Council of Agriculture Research) on such projects such as cotton, soybean, sorghum, groundnut, wheat, and barley etc. He also worked as a seed production officer at the National Seed Project of ICAR. During his stay of more than nine years in foreign countries, he visited over 20 countries and had opportunities to visit various educational institutes, universities, and their laboratories. With over 40 years of teaching and research experience, he has supervised many agriculture students in MSc and PhD programs. Dr. Bharadwaj has participated in several national and international workshops, seminars, and symposia and presented 15 research papers. He has published over 40 refereed research papers in national and international journals, contributed several book chapters, and published a dozen or so textbooks and reference books with Indian and foreign publishers. He also awarded a best scientist award in 1998 by the American Biographical Institute, Inc. USA.