Plant Breeding and Cultivar Development
Plant Breeding and Cultivar Development

Author: D. P. Singh

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2021-01-21

Total Pages: 663

ISBN-13: 0128175648

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Plant Breeding and Cultivar Development features an optimal balance between classical and modern tools and techniques related to plant breeding. Written for a global audience and based on the extensive international experience of the authors, the book features pertinent examples from major and minor world crops. Advanced data analytics (machine learning), phenomics and artificial intelligence are explored in the book's 28 chapters that cover classical and modern plant breeding. By presenting these advancements in specific detail, private and public sector breeding programs will learn about new, effective and efficient implementation. The insights are clear enough that non-plant breeding majoring students will find it useful to learn about the subject, while advanced level students and researchers and practitioners will find practical examples that help them implement their work. Bridges the gap between conventional breeding practices and state-of-the-art technologies Provides real-world case studies of a wide range of plant breeding techniques and practices Combines insights from genetics, genomics, breeding science, statistics, computer science and engineering for crop improvement and cultivar development

Pulse Crop Production : Principles and Technologies
Pulse Crop Production : Principles and Technologies

Author: Dilip Kumar Majumdar

Publisher: PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.

Published: 2011-02

Total Pages: 588

ISBN-13: 8120341767

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This book has been designed to provide valuable research information and learning materials for sustained and sequential development of science and technology of pulse production and advanced production technologies available for growing pulses. Voluminous information is now available in some fields, while information and technologies in others are greatly lacking. The important one have been incorporated for benefits of students and research workers

Breeding of Pulse Crops
Breeding of Pulse Crops

Author: Samiullah Khan

Publisher: KALYANI PUBLISHERS, LUDHIANA, INDIA

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 9788127267926

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Pulses are an important and the most economical source of vegetable proteins and occupy a significant place in the dietary of the people worldwide. India, despite its great agriculture potential, has long been facing a shortage of pulse production. Development of high yielding varieties of pulses is an important goal of breeding programmes.#"Breeding of pulse crops" is an outstanding compilation of review/research articles on mutation breeding, somaclonal variation (in vitro methodologies) and genetic alterations of pulse crops. The contributors are international experts in their field. The articles consist of most recent information on breeding strategies applied for the improvement of pulse crops with modern innovations used and constraints to overcome. This book will be useful to teachers, researchers and students who are working on improvement of pulse crops.

Genomic Designing of Climate-smart Oilseed Crops
Genomic Designing of Climate-smart Oilseed Crops

Author: Chittaranjan Kole

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9783319935379

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This book highlights modern strategies and methods to improve oilseed crops in the era of climate change, presenting the latest advances in plant molecular breeding and genomics-driven breeding. Spectacular achievements in the fields of molecular breeding, transgenics and genomics in the last three decades have facilitated revolutionary changes in oilseed- crop-improvement strategies and techniques. Since the genome sequencing of rice, as the first crop plant, in 2002, the genomes of about one dozen oilseed crops have been sequenced and more are to follow. This has made it possible to decipher the exact nucleotide sequence and chromosomal positions of agroeconomic genes. Most importantly, comparative genomics and genotyping-by-sequencing have opened up new vistas for exploring available biodiversity, particularly of wild crop relatives, for identifying useful donor genes.

Lexicon of Pulse Crops
Lexicon of Pulse Crops

Author: Aleksandar Mikić

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2018-06-27

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1351612255

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Lexicon of Pulse Crops integrates botanical and linguistic data to analyze and interpret the grain legume significance from the earliest archaeological and written records until the present day. Aimed at both agronomic and linguistic research communities, this book presents a database containing 9,500 common names in more than 900 languages and dialects of all ethnolinguistic families, denoting more than 1,100 botanical taxa of 14 selected pulse crop genera and species. The book begins with overviews of the world’s economically most important grain legume crops and their uncultivated relatives, as well as the world’s language families with their inner structure, including both extinct and living members. The main section of the text presents 14 specialized book chapters covering Arachis, Cajanus, Cicer, Ervum, Faba, Glycine, Lablab, Lathyrus, Lens, Lupinus, Phaseolus, Pisum, Vicia, and Vigna. They provide the reader with extensive lists of the botanically accepted species and subtaxa and surveys lexicological abundance in all world’s ethnolinguistic families, comprising extinct and living as well as natural and constructed languages, while the vernacular names for the most significant taxa are presented in comprehensive tables. Each of these chapters also presents the existing etymologies and novel approaches to deciphering the origins of common names, accompanied by one original color plate depicting possible root evolutions in the form of corresponding pulse crop plants.

Mutation Breeding in Chickpea:
Mutation Breeding in Chickpea:

Author: IMRAN Kozgar

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 3110374250

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The book by M. Imran Kozgar aims to cover the problems of mutation breeding in pulse crops in the light of issues related to food insecurity and malnutrition, which according to FAO are the major threats at the present time. So far the research on induction of mutation in pulse crops is negligible compared to cereal crops, though the pulse crops and especially the chickpea are the largest grown crops in India. The main objective of the book is to reveal and explore the possibility of inducing genetic variability in early generations of mutated chickpea, describe the positive aspects of mutagenic treatments, evaluate the content of mineral elements (iron, manganese, zinc and copper) and physiological parameters of isolated high yielding mutant lines. The author hopes that his book will help to advance studies on pulse crops, and that in the long term it will help to reduce the food insecurity and malnutrition problems presently persisting in various developing countries, including India.