Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies: Breeding, Biotechnology and Molecular Tools

Part I. Genetic Resource Utilization and Conservation.- 1. Plant Domestication and Utilization: The Case of the Pampa Biome; Mercedes Rivas, Federico Condón.- 2. Decentralized Collaborative Plant Breeding for Utilization and Conservation of Neglected and Underutilized Crop Genetic Resources; Alberto Camacho-Henriquez et al.- 3. Plant Cryopreservation for Biotechnology and Breeding; Elena Popova et al.- 4. Mutants as a Genetic Resource for Future Crop Improvement; Mohd Gulfishan et al.- Part II. Breeding Strategies.- 5. Conventional Plant Breeding Principles and Techniques; George Acquaah.- 6. Applying Epigenetics in Plant Breeding: Balancing Genome Stability and Phenotypic Plasticity; Estelle Jaligot, Alain Rival.- 7. Progress and Perspectives of Distant Heterosis in Rice; Deming Jin, Tondi Yacouba Nassirou.- 8. Forward and Reverse Genetics in Crop Breeding; Joanna Jankowicz-Cieslak, Bradley J. Till.- 9. Doubled Haploid Breeding in Cereals; D. Gavin Humphreys, Ron E. Knox.- Part III. In Vitro Culture and Transgenic Approaches.- 10. Applications of In Vitro Techniques in Plant Breeding; Zul Zulkarnain et al.- 11. Induced Mutations in Plant Breeding; H. Dayton Wilde.- 12. Alternative to Transgenesis: Cisgenesis and Intragenesis; Ankita Singh et al.- 13. Transgenic Pyramiding for Crop Improvement;Bingliang Wan.- 14. RNAi Technology: A Potential Tool in Plant Breeding; Mohammad Abhary, Adel Rezk.- Part IV. Molecular Breeding.- 15. Molecular Marker-Assisted Breeding: A Plant Breeder's Review; Guo-Liang Jiang.- 16. Mutant-Based Reverse Genetics for Functional Genomics of Non-Model Crops; Toyoaki Anai.- 17. Prospects of Functional Genomics in Sugarcane; Ram Kushal Singh, Sujeet Pratap Singh.- 18. Potentials of Proteomics in Crop Breeding; Aayudh Das.- 19. Utilization of Diverse Sequencing Panels for Future Plant Breeding; Aysen Yumurtaci.- 20. Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Tools and Impact in Plant Breeding; Vinay K. Singh et al.- 21. Molecular Breeding for Genetic Improvement of Cotton (Gossypium spp.); N. Manikanda Boopathi et al.- Index.