Wheat Improvement: Food Security in a Changing Climate (Hardcover)

Introduction.- History of Wheat Breeding: A Personal View.- Defining Target Wheat Breeding Environments.- Global Trends in Wheat Production, Consumption and Trade.- Breeding Methods: Line Development.- Breeding Methods: Population Improvement and Selection Methods.- Achieving Genetic Gains in Practice.- Wheat Rusts: Current Status, Prospects of Genetic Control and Integrated Approaches to Enhance Resistance Durability.- Globally Important Non-Rust Diseases of Wheat.- Abiotic Stresses.- Wheat Quality.- Nutritionally Enhanced Wheat for Food and Nutrition Security.- Experimental Design for Plant Improvement.- Seed Systems to Support Rapid Adoption of Improved Varieties in Wheat.- Crop Management for Breeding Trials.- A Century of Cytogenetic and Genome Analysis: Impact on Wheat Crop Improvement.- Conserving Wheat Genetic Resources.- Exploring Untapped Wheat Genetic Resources to Boost Food Security.- Disease Resistance.- Insect Resistance.- Yield Potential.- Heat and Climate Change Mitigation.- Drought.- Micronutrient Toxicity and Deficiency.- Pre-breeding Strategies.- Translational Research Networks.- High Throughput Field Phenotyping.- Sequence-based marker assisted selection in wheat.- Application of CRISPR-Cas-based Genome Editing for Precision Breeding in Wheat.- Accelerating Breeding Cycles.- Improving Wheat Production and Breeding Strategies Using Crop Models.- Theory and Practice of Phenotypic and Genomic Selection Indices.