Wild Germplasm for Genetic Improvement in Crop Plants

Provides the only comprehensive overview of wild germplasm presenting multiple crops

Muhammad Tehseen Azhar (Edited by), Shabir Hussain Wani (Edited by)

9780128221372, Elsevier Science

Paperback, published 12 March 2021

406 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.6 cm, 0.75 kg

Wild Germplasm for Genetic Improvement in Crop Plants addresses the need for an integrated reference on a wide variety of crop plants, facilitating comparison and contrast, as well as providing relevant relationships for future research and development. The book presents the genetic and natural history value of wild relatives, covers what wild relatives exist, explores the existing knowledge regarding specific relatives and the research surrounding them and identifies knowledge gaps. As understanding the role of crop wild relatives in plant breeding expands the genetic pool for abiotic and biotic stress resistance, this is an ideal reference on this important topic.

1. Introduction: Potential of Wild Species in Plant Breeding 2. Wild Cotton Genepool: An unopened treasure 3. Wild Wheat Germplasm: An unopened treasure 4. Emerging Avenues for the Exploitation of Wild Relatives of Rice in Plant Breeding 5. Genetic Resources and Pre-breeding of Maize 6. Utilization of wild ancestors for biotic and abiotic tolerance in barley 7. Effect of natural variation on biofortification 8. Untapped soybeans; A genetic reservoir for its improvement 9. Wild Sunflowers: The primary genetic resource for sunflower breeding 10. Brassicas: A Complete Guide to the potential of their wild relatives 11. Wild Germplasm: Shaping future tomato breeding 12. Potato wild relatives, a reservoir of genetic diversity for the sustainability of world's 3rdmost important food crop 13. Wild relatives of sweet potato; Distribution and prospectus for crop improvement 14. Tapping the genetic diversity in sugarcane wild germplasm using next generation genotyping and phenotyping tools 15. Generation of new landraces?of forage species; Red Fescue and clover 16. Chickpea wild relatives: potential source of ancient genes for stress tolerance breeding 17. Mungbean Wild genetic resource; a potential source of genetic improvement for abiotic and biotic stress tolerance 18. Lentil Wild genetic resource; a potential source of genetic improvement for abiotic and biotic stress tolerance 19. Wild Relative Species and new plant breeding technologies

Subject Areas: Agronomy & crop production [TVK], Biotechnology [TCB], Plant physiology [PSTD], Genetics [non-medical PSAK], Agriculture & related industries [KNAC]