ADVANCES IN PLANT BREEDING STRATEGIES: AGRONOMIC, ABIOTIC AND BIOTIC STRESS TRAITS

1. Sustainable Agriculture and Plant Breeding
2. Breeding Crop Plants for Improved Human Nutrition Through Biofortification: Progress and Prospects
3. Role of Genomics in Enhancing Nutrition Content of Cereals
4. Molecular Farming Using Transgenic Approaches
5. Forages: Ecology, Breeding Objectives and Procedures
6. Breeding vis-à-vis Genomics of Tropical Tree Crops
7. Coconut Breeding in India
8. Molecular Breeding to Improve Plant Resistance to Abiotic Stresses
9. Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) Marker for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants
10. Transgenic Approaches for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants
11. Breeding Strategies to Enhance Drought Tolerance in Crops
12. Breeding Strategies for Enhanced Plant Tolerance to Heat Stress
13. QTLs for Genetic Improvement Under Global Climate Changes
14. Genotype x Environment Interaction Implication: A Case Study of Durum Wheat Breeding in Iran
15. Breeding Strategies for Improving Plant Resistance to Diseases
16. Breeding and Genetics of Resistance to Fusarium Wilt in Melon
17. Viral, Fungal and Bacterial Disease Resistance in Transgenic Plants
18. Current Status of

The basic concept of this book is to examine the use of innovative methods augmenting traditional plant breeding towards the development of new crop varieties under different environmental conditions to achieve sustainable food production. This book consists of two volumes: Volume 1 subtitled Breeding, Biotechnology and Molecular Tools and Volume 2 subtitled Agronomic, Abiotic and Biotic Stress Traits. This is volume 2 which contains 18 chapters highlighting breeding strategies for specific plant traits including improved nutritional and pharmaceutical properties as well as enhanced tolerance to insects, diseases, drought, salinity and temperature extremes expected under predicted global climate change.

Features
• Provides current assessment of research and development in modern plant breeding
• Describes recent achievements in crop improvement based on biotechnological approaches
• Covers enhanced traits essential for sustainable agriculture under global climate change
• Chapters are written by an assemblage of internationally prominent scientists
• Concepts are illustrated with 66 high quality figures and 69 tables