Molecular Techniques in Crop ImprovementShri Mohan Jain, D.S. Brar Plant breeding aims at the genetic enhancement of crops through the application of principles of Mendelian Genetics and modern tools and techniques of cell and molecular biology. Many breeding programs focus on the improvement of traits such as high yield, multiple resistance to major diseases, insect pests and tolerance to abiotic stresses and improved quality. The improved varieties must also fit into the crop rotation systems of different eco-agricultural regions for the production of feed, fiber, food, and industrial products. The value of new plant varieties in increasing food production has been demonstrated time and again, and perhaps the best of all, in the "Green revolution", which was based on the semi-dwarf rice and wheat varieties in Asia. Recent advances in molecular genetics have opened new opportunities to speed up plant breeding. Molecular markers have become important tools in the hands of plant breeders for enhancing the selection efficiency for various agronomic traits. Plant breeding has in fact entered in an era of genomics. The isolation, cloning and moving of genes from diverse biological sources into plant genomes holds promise to broaden the gene pool of crops and tailor plant varieties for specific traits that determine yield, quality and resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses. This book is a sequel to our previous one on "Somaclonal Variation and Induced Mutations in Crop Improvement. |
Contents
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exploitation | 85 |
Development and application of molecular markers in conifers 139 | 138 |
DNA markers and heterosis | 161 |
Molecular markers and abiotic stresses | 203 |
Molecular markers for flowering time genes in crop species 239 | 238 |
Molecular markers for the genetic analysis of apomixis | 265 |
Use of molecular markers for fruit crop improvement 283 | 282 |
Construction and use of genetic maps in cereals 347 | 346 |
Gene expression under environmental stressesmolecular | 371 |
Random insertional mutagenesis in Arabidopsis | 409 |
Engineering the chloroplast genome to confer stress tolerance | 426 |
Identification of strawberry flavour related genes by the | 453 |
Gene targeting in plants 481 | 480 |
Plant DNA methylation and gene expression | 501 |
QTL mapping in crop plants 541 | 540 |
In situ hybridization in plants methods and application | 299 |
Molecular tools for improving coffee Coffea arabica L | 327 |
Other editions - View all
Molecular Techniques in Crop Improvement: 2nd Edition Shri Mohan Jain,D.S. Brar Limited preview - 2009 |
Molecular Techniques in Crop Improvement S. Mohan Jain,D. S. Brar,B. S. Ahloowalia No preview available - 2002 |
Common terms and phrases
abiotic stress Acad acid AFLP agronomic alleles amplified analysis apomixis Arabidopsis thaliana barley Biol cDNA chickpea chloroplast chloroplast genome chromosome clones coffee Crop Sci cultivars detected differentially DNA markers DNA methylation DNA sequences enzymes fingerprinting flowering fluorescent forage gene expression gene targeting genetic diversity genetic maps genome genomic DNA genotypes germplasm Heslop-Harrison heterosis hybridisation hybridization identified insertion introgression isolated isozyme large number linkage groups linkage map locus maize marker-assisted selection method microarray microsatellite molecular markers mRNA mutation Natl nucleotide oligonucleotide overexpression pathogen pathways PCR products phenotype plant breeding Plant Cell Plant Mol Plant Physiol populations primers probes Proc progeny protein quantitative trait loci RAPD resistance genes retrotransposons RFLP map RFLP markers rice root sativa seed segregation species STMS markers studies T-DNA tagging Tanksley technique Theor Appl Genet tissue tobacco tolerance tomato transcription transgenic plants variation Wang wheat yield Zhang