Molecular Breeding for Sustainable Crop Improvement: Volume 2

Preface.- 1. Use of alien genetic variation for wheatimprovement; P.K. Gupta.- 2.Quantitative trait loci mapping in plants: concepts and approaches; D. Sehgal.- 3. Developing and deployingabiotic stress tolerant maize varieties in the tropics: challenges andopportunities; B.M. Prasanna.- 4.Harnessing apomixes for heterosis breeding in crop improvement; V. Bhat.- 5. Status and opportunities ofmolecular breeding approaches for genetic improvement of tea; R. Kumar Sharma.- 6. Molecularcytogenetic approaches in exploration of important chromosomal landmarks inplants; Y. Mukai.- 7. Technologicaladvances in studying gene pool diversity and its exploitation; S. Goel.- 8. Introgression andexploitation of QTL for yield and yield components from related wild speciesinto rice cultivars; K. Neelam.- 9. Amolecular phylogenetic framework for Timothy (Phleum pratense L.) improvement; A. Stewart.- 10. Genetic improvement of basmati rice - The journeyfrom conventional to molecular breeding; A.K.Singh.- 11. Genetic diversity andcoffee (Coffea sps) improvement inIndia; R.K. Aggarwal.- 12.Introgression and exploitation of biotic stress tolerance from related wildspecies in wheat cultivars; P. Chhuneja.- 13. Genetic improvement ofsugarcane through conventional and molecular approaches; S. Kumar.- 14. Germlinetransformation for crop improvement; R.Tandon.- 15. Advances in molecular breeding of pearl millet; D. Sehgal.- 16. Molecular marker-basedselection tools in spring bread wheat improvement: CIMMYT experience andprospects; S. Dreisigacker.- Index.