Crop Improvement: Challenges in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)

Contents

• About the Editor
  
• Contributors
  
• Foreword
  
• Preface
  
• Part I: Introduction--Vision
  
• Chapter 1. Crop Breeding in the Twenty-First Century
  
• Introduction
  
• Present Status
  
• Summary and Predictions
  
• Part II: Crop Improvement
  
• Chapter 2. Rice Improvement: Past, Present, and Future
  
• Introduction
  
• Post-Green Revolution Varieties
  
• Impact of Modern Varieties
  
• Future Challenges
  
• Conclusions
  
• Chapter 3. Tropical Maize: Innovative Approaches for Sustainable Productivity and Production Increases
  
• Introduction
  
• Tropical Maize-Growing Environments
  
• Challenges of Maize Improvement for the Tropics
  
• New Approaches and Research That Combine Conventional Breeding and Molecular and Biotechnological Tools
  
• Moving the Benefits of Maize Genetic Improvement to Farmers
  
• Conclusions: Tropical Maize Improvement Needs
  
• Chapter 4. Maize Improvement for Resistance to Aflatoxins: Progress and Challenges
  
• Introduction
  
• Contamination Process
  
• Reducing Aflatoxin Contamination in Maize
  
• Interrupting/Reducing Toxin Production Ability of the Fungus
  
• Concluding Remarks
  
• Chapter 5. Sorghum Improvement: Past Achievements and Future Prospects
  
• Introduction
  
• Sorghum Production, Production Areas, and Importance in the Global Food Systems
  
• Evolutionary Genetics and Germplasm Diversity in Sorghum
  
• History of Sorghum Improvement
  
• Breeding Tools
  
• Breeding Objectives and Achievements
  
• Current Progress in Biotechnology for Sorghum Improvement
  
• Challenges and Future Prospects
  
• Chapter 6. The Common Bean and Its Genetic Improvement
  
• Origin, Domestication, and Diversity
  
• Growth Habits
  
• Usage
  
• Dry Bean Production
  
• Production Problems
  
• Traits Deficient in Common Bean
  
• History of Improvement
  
• Selection Methods
  
• Genetic Progress Achieved
  
• Difficulties and Challenges
  
• Integrated Genetic Improvement
  
• Conclusions and Prospects
  
• Chapter 7. Sugar Beet Breeding and Improvement
  
• Introduction
  
• Plant Characteristics and Inheritance
  
• Hybrid Production
  
• Selection Techniques
  
• Agronomic Traits
  
• Germplasm Resources
  
• Chapter 8. Bananas and Plantains: Future Challenges in Musa Breeding
  
• Introduction
  
• Overcoming Infertility Barriers
  
• New Methods for Manipulating a Multiploidy Crop
  
• New Breeding Approaches
  
• Summary and Conclusions
  
• Chapter 9. Molecular Markers, Genomics, and Cotton Improvement
  
• Introduction
  
• Use of Molecular Markers in Gossypium
  
• Linkage Maps and Their Applications
  
• QTLs and Functional Genomics
  
• Future Prospects
  
• Part III: Crop Issues
  
• Chapter 10. Physiological and Biochemical Responses of Plants to Drought and Heat Stress
  
• Introduction
  
• Water Relations
  
• Carbohydrate Metabolism
  
• Lipid Peroxidation
  
• Protein Synthesis
  
• Regulation of Drought and Heat Tolerance
  
• Evaluation of Drought and Heat Tolerance
  
• Summary
  
• Chapter 11. Stability Analysis in Crop Performance Evaluation
  
• Introduction
  
• The Data
  
• Model Selection
  
• Two-Way Analysis
  
• Three-Way Analysis
  
• Discussion
  
• Chapter 12. Best Linear Unbiased Prediction: A Mixed-Model Approach in Multienvironment Trials
  
• Introduction
  
• Mixed Models for Multienvironment Trials
  
• Predictive Accuracy of BLUPs
  
• Index
  
• Reference Notes Included