Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies, Volume 2: Agronomic, Abiotic and Biotic Stress Traits (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

Part I . Sustainability, Nutrition and Pharmaceuticals .- 1. Sustainable Agriculture and Plant Breeding; Dinesh Narayan Bharadwaj .- 2. Breeding Crop Plants for Improved Human Nutrition through Biofortification: Progress and Prospects; Prakash I. Gangashetty et al .- 3. Role of Genomics in Enhancing Nutrition Content of Cereals; Mehanathan Muthamilarasan, Manoj Prasad .- 4. Molecular Farming using Transgenic Approaches; Ramandeep Kaur Jhinjer .- Part II. Forage and Tree Traits .- 5. Forages: Ecology, Breeding Objectives and Procedures; Saeed Rauf .- 6. Breeding vis-a-vis Genomics of Tropical Tree Crops; Padmanabhan M. Priyadarshan .- 7. Coconut Breeding in India; Raman V. Nair et al .- Part III. Abiotic Stress Tolerance .- 8. Molecular Breeding to Improve Plant Resistance to Abiotic Stresses; G.J.N. Rao et al .- 9. Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) Marker for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants; Ratan S. Telem et al .- 10. Transgenic Approach for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants; Shabir H. Wani et al .- 11. Breeding Strategies to Enhance Drought Tolerance in Crops; Saeed Rauf et al .- 12. Breeding Strategies for Enhanced Plant Tolerance to Heat Stress; Viola Devasirvatham et al .- 13. QTLs for Genetic Improvement under Global Climate Changes; Ramon Molina-Bravo, Alejandro Zamora-Melendez .- 14. Genotype x Environment Interaction Implication: A Case Study of Durum Wheat Breeding in Iran; Reza Mohammadi, Ahmed Amri .- Part IV. Biotic Stress Resistance .- 15. Breeding Strategies for Improving Plant Resistance to Diseases; Thomas Miedaner .- 16. Breeding and Genetics of Resistance to Fusarium Wilt in Melon; Ali Oumouloud, Jose M. Alvarez .- 17. Viral, Fungal and Bacterial Disease Resistance in Transgenic Plants; Vinod Saharan et al .- 18. Current Status of Bacillus thuringiensis : Insecticidal Crystal Proteins and Transgenic Crops; Devendra Jain et al .- Index.