QTL Mapping in Crop Improvement
Present Progress and Future Perspectives

Presents the latest information on quantitative trait locus (QTL) and how to identify and address stressors in crop plants

Shabir Hussain Wani (Edited by), Dechun Wang (Edited by), Gyanendra Pratap Singh (Edited by)

9780323852432, Elsevier Science

Paperback / softback, published 21 November 2022

414 pages, 50 illustrations (35 in full color)
23.5 x 19 x 2.6 cm, 0.45 kg

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.

1. Recent advances in Molecular markers for QTL mapping in crops plants 2. A Statistical Perspective of Gene Set Analysis with Trait Specific QTL in Molecular Crop Breeding 3. Crop improvement using QTLian breeding against Colletotrichum truncatum 4. Molecular breeding for heat and drought stress in Maize: Revisiting the progress and acheivements 5. Genome-wide QTL detection for biotic stress resistance in maize 6. Harnessing QTLian breeding for quality improvement in maize: Recent advances 7. Abiotic stress tolerance in wheat: Molecular breeding perspectives 8. Advances in Molecular breeding for biotic stress tolerance in Wheat 9. Drought stress tolerance in Wheat: Recent QTL mapping advances 10. Wheat biofortification: A molecular breeding outlook 11. Identification of tolerance for Wheat Rusts: Insights in recent QTL mapping efforts 12. Genetic studies on cold and hypoxia Stress in Rice 13. Rice biotic stress tolerance Recent Advances in molecular breeding approaches 14. QTL mapping for Salinity Stress in Rice: Present status and future prospects 15. Genetic Improvement of Rice grain Quality 16. Translating Genetics into Genomics: From QTL Identification to Candidate Gene Discovery in Rice 17. Salinity stress tolerance in barley: Recent advances in QTL mapping 18. Barley drought stress improvement using advanced molecular breeding tools 19. Quantitative genetic advances for disease resistance in soybean 20. Molecular breeding for development of drought stress tolerance in Soybean 21. Common bean breeding advances utilizing the recent advances in QTL mapping 22. Genomics assisted breeding Pigeon pea improvement 23. Molecular breeding for groundnut (Peanut) improvement: Present status and future prospects 24. Sorghum Improvement using molecular breeding approaches 25. QTL mapping studies for Small Millets Improvement

Subject Areas: Agronomy & crop production [TVK], Genetics [non-medical PSAK]