Accelerated plant breeding

Plant improvement has shifted its focus from yield, quality and disease resistance to factors that will enhance commercial 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. The proposed volume work thus plans to summarize 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 will be an important reference with special focus on accelerated development of improved crop varieties.

Includes index.

Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Editors -- Chapter 1: Efficient Breeding of Pulse Crops -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Production Trends -- 1.3 Overview of Past Breeding Efforts -- 1.3.1 Genetic Resources -- 1.3.2 Variety Development -- 1.3.3 Breeding Progress -- 1.4 Accelerating Breeding Efficiency in Pulses -- 1.4.1 Defining the Target Population of Environments (TPE) -- 1.4.2 High-Throughput Phenotyping -- 1.4.3 Simulation Models for Appropriate Breeding Scheme -- 1.4.4 Enhancing Genetic Variability -- 1.4.5 Selection Indices -- 1.4.6 Indirect Selection

1.4.7 Marker-Assisted Selection -- 1.4.8 Genomic Selection -- 1.4.9 Rapid Generation Advancement -- 1.4.10 Recombinant DNA Technology -- 1.4.11 Genome Editing Technologies -- 1.4.12 Experimental Design -- 1.5 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 2: Advances in Chickpea Breeding and Genomics for Varietal Development and Trait Improvement in India -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Germplasm and Genetic Resources -- 2.3 Varietal Development -- 2.4 Major Constraints -- 2.4.1 Biotic Stresses -- 2.4.1.1 Fusarium Wilt -- 2.4.1.2 Ascochyta Blight -- 2.4.1.3 Botrytis Grey Mould -- 2.4.1.4 Pod Borer

2.4.1.5 Bruchids -- 2.4.1.…