Marker-Assisted Plant Breeding: Principles and Practices
Marker-assisted plant breeding involves the application of molecular marker techniques and statistical and bioinformatics tools to achieve plant breeding objectives in a cost-effective and time-efficient manner. This book is intended for beginners in the
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Marker-Assisted Plant Breeding: Principles and Practices
Marker-Assisted Plant Breeding: Principles and Practices
B.D. Singh • A.K. Singh
Marker-Assisted Plant Breeding: Principles and Practices
B.D. Singh School of Biotechnology Banaras Hindu University Varanasi, UP, India
A.K. Singh Division of Genetics Indian Agricultural Research Institute New Delhi, Delhi, India
ISBN 978-81-322-2315-3 ISBN 978-81-322-2316-0 DOI 10.1007/978-81-322-2316-0
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To Prof. M.S. Swaminathan, who reshaped agricultural research in India and inspired a whole generation of plant scientists
Foreword
Plant breeding is the discipline that fashioned our crop plants out of the wild weedy species and continues its endeavor to modify their genotypes to enhance their performance and usefulness to the changing human needs and climate conditions. In the past, the new genotypes developed by plant breeders have been considerably successful in keeping pace with the growing global food needs and consumer preferences. For example, the evolution of hybrid varieties and semi-dwarf cereal genotypes has contributed to quantum jumps in crop productivity, and the latter was responsible for the ‘green revolution’ that made countries like India virtually self-sufficient in their food grain requirements within a short span of a few years. The world population is increasing at a rapid rate and is expected to go past the nine billion mark by the year 2042. In addition, the nature and the relevance of both abiotic and biotic stresses are undergoing unrelenting changes in the wake of the environmental alterations engendered by climate change and global warming. In view of these, it is necessary not only to continue to evolve crop
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