Academic Press QTL Mapping in Crop Improvement: Present Progress and Future Perspectives

QTL Mapping in Crop Improvement: Present Progress and Future Perspectives presents advancements in QTL breeding for biotic and abiotic stresses and nutritional improvement in a range of crop plants. The book presents a roadmap for future breeding for resilience to various stresses and improvement in nutritional quality. Crops such as rice, wheat, maize, soybeans, common bean, and pigeon pea are the major staple crops consumed globally, hence fulfilling the nutritional requirements of global populations, particularly in the under-developed world, is extremely important. Sections cover the challenges facing maximized production of these crops, including diseases, insect damage, drought, heat, salinity and mineral toxicity. Covering globally important crops including maize, wheat, rice, barley, soybean, common bean and pigeon pea, this book will be an important reference for those working in agriculture and crop improvement. Review Presents the latest information on quantitative trait locus (QTL) and how to identify and address stressors in crop plants From the Back Cover <p><i>QTL Breeding in Crop Plants: Present Progress and Future Perspectives </i>is the first comprehensive volume to present advancements in QTL breeding for biotic and abiotic stresses and nutritional improvement in a range of crop plants, presenting a road map for future breeding for resilience to various stresses and improvement nutritional quality.</p> <p>Cereals such as rice, wheat, and maize are the major staple crops consumed globally. In addition, legumes such as soybean, common bean and pigeon pea fulfill the nutritional requirements of global populations particularly in the under-developed world. Among the challenges facing maximized production of these crops are the biotic stresses such as diseases and insect damage, and the abiotic stresses such as drought, heat, salinity, and mineral toxicity which can severely affect crop yield. Further quality traits such as increased nutritional values of these crops will assist in addressing malnutrition.</p> <p>While traditional plant breeding approaches towards biotic, abiotic stress tolerance and quality improvement have attained success to limited extent, due to the complex (multigenic) nature of these traits and improved the understanding and application of novel molecular markers, and mapping of QTLs has emerged as viable solution for developing and deploying high-yielding, climate-resilient crop cultivars together.</p> <p>Covering globally important crops including maize, wheat, rice, barley, soybean, common bean and pigeon pea, this volume will be an important reference for those working in agriculture and crop improvement.</p> About the Author Shabir Hussain Wani is Scientist cum Assistant Professor at Shere-e- Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir where his research focuses on plant breeding and genetics/plant biotechnology. Included among his awards are: Fellow of the Linnean Society of London-2017 YOUNG SCIENTIST Award (2017), Indian Ecological Society Punjab Agricultural University Ludhiana. Young Scientist of the Year 2016, International foundation for Environment and Ecology Kolkata India. YOUNG ACHIEVER AWARD – 2016, Society for Advancement of Human and Nature (SADHNA) YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry YOUNG SCIENTIST Award (2015), Society for Plant Research, Meerut, India YOUNG SCIENTIST Award (2009), Society for Promotion of Plant Science Research. Jaipur National University, Jaipur. FELLOW OF SOCIETY FOR PLANT RESEARCH AWARD – 2011-12 Prof. Dechung Wang is Associate Professor, Dept. of Crop and Soil Sciences. Since 2007 his research has focused on genetic mapping of QTL conferring resistance to soybean aphid, while mold and other traits, soybeam molecular genetics and the molecular genetics and techniques of plant breeding. The shanghai Commission of Sciences and Technology aw