Translational genomics for crop breeding: Volume II: Abiotic Stress, Yield and Quality/

Translational genomics for crop breeding: Volume II: Abiotic Stress, Yield and Quality/ edited by Rajeev K. Varshney, Roberto Tuberosa. - Ames, Iowa : Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley Blackwell, 2013. - x, 248 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ;

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Genomics applications in crop breeding for abiotic stress tolerance and quality traits: an introduction / Rajeev K. Varshney and Roberto Tuberosa -- Applying genomics tools for breeding submergence tolerance in rice / Endang M. Septiningsih ... [et al.] -- Genomics applications to salinity tolerance breeding in rice / J. Damien Platten, Michael J. Thomson and Abdelbagi M. Ismail -- Marker-assisted introgression of major QTLs for grain yield under drought in rice / Arvind Kumar, Shalabh Dixit and Amelia Henry -- Molecular breeding for phosphorus-efficient rice / Sigrid Heuer ... [et al.] -- Aluminum tolerance in sorghum and maize / Jurandir V. Magalhaes ... [et al.] -- Freezing tolerance in the triticeae / Galiba Gabor [and 5 others] -- Molecular breeding for stay-green: progress and challenges in sorghum / Vincent Vadez ... [et al.] -- Genetic improvement of grain quality in japonica rice / Kiyosumi Hori and Masahiro Yano -- Biofortified maize: a genetic avenue for nutritional security / Raman Babu, Natalia Palacios and BM Prasanna -- Marker assisted backcrossing selection for high O/L ratio in cultivated peanut / Padmalatha Koilkonda ... [et al.] -- Genomics-assisted breeding for tomato fruit quality in the next-generation omics age / Matthew P. Kinkade and Majid R. Foolad -- Improvement of yield per se in sugarcane / M. Gouy ... [et al.].

9780470962916 (cloth : alk. paper) 9781118728376 (epub) 9781118728420 (emobi) 9781118728482 (obook) 9781118728628 (epdf)


Crops
Plant breeding.
Plant genome mapping.
Crop improvement.

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