Breeding Major Food Staples [Hardcover]

As the world’s population increases the need to produce greater quantities of major staple crops such as wheat, rice, maize, potato, cassava, soybean, sweet potato, barley, and banana in order to sufficiently feed the people of the world continues to grow. Breeding Major Food Staples covers improving yields and quality of these crops through breeding and the use of molecular biology tools such as gene transfer, genome mapping, biofortification, and bioinformatics. This book will be an important reference for anyone working in crop breeding.Foreword (Gurdev S. Khush).

Preface (Manjit S. Kang and P.M. Priyadarshan).

Part 1: General Topics.

Chapter 1: Crop Breeding Methodologies: Classic and Modern (Manjit S.Kang, Prasanta K. Subudhi, Niranjan Baisakh, and P.M. Priyadarshan).

Chapter 2: Genetic Enhancement of Polypoid Crops Using Tools of Classical Cytogenetics and Modern Biotechnology (Prem P. Jauhar).

Chapter 3: Biofortification: Breeding Micronutrient-Dense Crops (Wolfgang H. Pfeiffer and Bonnie McClafferty).

Chapter 4:Bioinformatics and Plant Genomics for Staple Crops Improvement (David Edwards).

Part 2: Cereals and Oil/Protein Crops.

Chapter 5: Breeding Spring Bread Wheat for Irrigated and Rainfed Production Systems of the Developing World (Ravi P. Singh and Richard Trethowan).

Chapter 6: Rice Breeding for Sustainable Production (Sant S. Virmani and M. Ilyas-Ahmed).

Chapter 7: Barley Breeding for Sustainable Production (Salvatore Ceccarelli, Stefania Grando, Flavio Capettini, and Michael Baum).

Chapter 8: Corn Breeding in the Twenty-first Century (G. Richard Johnson).

Chapter 9: Soybean Breeding Achievements and Challenges (Silvia R. Cianzio).