Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies: Industrial and Food Crops, 1st ed. 2019 Volume 6
Coordonnateurs : Al-Khayri Jameel M., Jain Shri Mohan, Johnson Dennis V.
Preface.- About the Editors.- Contributors.- Part I. Industrial Crops.- 1. Genetics and Breeding of Tropical Acacias for Forest Products: Acacia mangium, A. auriculiformis and A. crassicarpa; Arif Nirsatmanto, Sri Sunarti.- 2. Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) Breeding Strategies; Saeed Rauf et al.- 3. CRISPR/Cas9: A New Genome Editing Tool to Accelerate Cotton (Gossypium spp.) Breeding; Muhammad N. Sattar et al.- 4. Jute (Corchorus spp.) Breeding; Liwu Zhang et al.- 5. Ramie (Boehmeria nivea L. Gaud) Genetic Improvement; Pratik Satya et al.- 6. Genetic Improvement of Guayule (Parthenium argentatum A. Gray): An Alternative Rubber Crop; Hussein Abdel-Haleem et al.- 7. Biotechnological Advances in Rubber Tree (Hevea brasiliensis Muell. Arg.) Breeding; Sankaran Sobha et al.- 8. Genetics and Breeding of Jojoba [Simmondsia chinensis (Link) Schneider]; Mohamed M.A. Khairi.- 9. Flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) Genomics and Breeding; Frank M. You et al.- 10. Breeding Strategies to Improve Production of Agave (Agave spp.); Kelly M. Monja-Mio et al.- 11. Sugarcane (Saccharum spp.): Breeding and Genomics; Shriram J. Mirajkar et al.- Part II. Food Crops.- 12. Cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) Breeding; Frances Bekele, Wilbert Phillips-Mora.- 13. Oil Palm (Elaeis spp.) Breeding in Malaysia; Fadila Ahmad Malike et al.- 14. Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) Breeding; Pooran Golkar, Somayeh Karimi.- 15. Advances in Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) Breeding; Swapan K. Tripathy et al.- 16. Breeding Strategies for Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) Genetic Improvement; Saeed Rauf.- 17. Saffron (Crocus sativus L.) Breeding: Opportunities and Challenges; Majid Shokrpour.- 18. Vanilla (Vanilla spp.) Breeding; Alan H. Chambers.- Index.
Prof. Jameel M. Al-Khayri is a Professor of plant biotechnology affiliated with the Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia. He received B.S. in Biology in 1984 from the University of Toledo, M.S. in Agronomy in 1988, and Ph.D. in Plant Science in 1991 from the University of Arkansas.
Prof. Shri Mohan Jain is a Consultant and Plant Biotechnologist, Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; received M. Phil, 1973 and Ph.D., 1978, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
Prof. Dennis V. Johnson is a Consultant and Former University Professor. He is a graduate of the University of California Los Angeles where he completed his B.A. (1966), M.A. (1970) and Ph.D. (1972) degrees in geography, with specialization in agriculture and biogeography.
Reviews research advances in the genetic improvement of industrial and food crops
Combines conventional plant breeding and biotechnological approaches for the improvement of individual crops
Presents achievements and prospects of innovative molecular breeding tools
Addresses germplasm conservation, development and utilization in reference to the global climate change
Chapters are written by an assemblage of internationally reputed scientists ad illustrated with high quality figures and tabulated data
Provides appendixes of available genetic resources and concerned research institutes worldwide
Concepts are illustrated with high quality color photos and diagrams
Date de parution : 11-2020
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Mots-clés :
Biotechnology; Genetic improvement; Plant breeding; Tissue culture; Molecular biology