Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies: Agronomic, Abiotic and Biotic Stress Traits

Part I. Sustainability, Nutrition and Pharmaceuticals.- 1. Sustainable Agriculture and Plant Breeding; Dinesh Narayan Bharadwaj.- 2. Breeding Crop Plants for Improved Human Nutrition through Biofortification: Progress and Prospects; Prakash I. Gangashetty et al.- 3. Role of Genomics in Enhancing Nutrition Content of Cereals; Mehanathan Muthamilarasan, Manoj Prasad.- 4. Molecular Farming using Transgenic Approaches; Ramandeep Kaur Jhinjer.- Part II. Forage and Tree Traits.- 5. Forages: Ecology, Breeding Objectives and Procedures; Saeed Rauf.- 6. Breeding vis-à-vis Genomics of Tropical Tree Crops; Padmanabhan M. Priyadarshan.- 7. Coconut Breeding in India; Raman V. Nair et al.- Part III. Abiotic Stress Tolerance.- 8. Molecular Breeding to Improve Plant Resistance to Abiotic Stresses; G.J.N. Rao et al.- 9. Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) Marker for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants; Ratan S. Telem et al.- 10. Transgenic Approach for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants; Shabir H. Wani et al.- 11. Breeding Strategies to Enhance Drought Tolerance in Crops; Saeed Rauf et al.- 12. Breeding Strategies for Enhanced Plant Tolerance to Heat Stress; Viola Devasirvatham et al.- 13. QTLs for Genetic Improvement under Global Climate Changes; Ramón Molina-Bravo, Alejandro Zamora-Meléndez.- 14. Genotype x Environment Interaction Implication: A Case Study of Durum Wheat Breeding in Iran; Reza Mohammadi, Ahmed Amri.- Part IV. Biotic Stress Resistance.- 15. Breeding Strategies for Improving Plant Resistance to Diseases; Thomas Miedaner.- 16. Breeding and Genetics of Resistance to Fusarium Wilt in Melon; Ali Oumouloud, José M. Álvarez.- 17. Viral, Fungal and Bacterial Disease Resistance in Transgenic Plants; Vinod Saharan et al.- 18. Current Status of Bacillus thuringiensis: Insecticidal Crystal Proteins and Transgenic Crops; Devendra Jain et al.- Index.