Advanced Molecular Plant Breeding

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.