Phenomics in Crop Plants: Trends, Options and Limitations
Identification of desirable genotypes with traits of interest is discernible for making genetic improvement of crop plants. In this direction, screening of a large number of germplasm for desirable traits and transfer of identified traits into agronomic b
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nomics in Crop Plants: Trends, Options and Limitations
Phenomics in Crop Plants: Trends, Options and Limitations
Jitendra Kumar • Aditya Pratap Shiv Kumar Editors
Phenomics in Crop Plants: Trends, Options and Limitations
Editors Jitendra Kumar Division of Crop Improvement ICAR – Indian Institute of Pulses Research Kalyanpur, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
Aditya Pratap Division of Crop Improvement ICAR – Indian Institute of Pulses Research Kalyanpur, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
Shiv Kumar International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas Rabat – Instituts, Rabat, Morocco
ISBN 978-81-322-2225-5 ISBN 978-81-322-2226-2 DOI 10.1007/978-81-322-2226-2
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Foreword
Growing world population is expected to cause a “perfect storm” of food, energy and water shortages by 2030 as demand for food and energy will jump by 50 % and for fresh water by 30 %, as the population tops at 8.3 billion. The overarching challenge before the policy makers and agricultural scientists is how to ensure food and nutrition security for an ever-increasing population from limited and fast depleting resources under climate change scenario, especially in countries like India where sizeable population is still suffering from the triple burden of malnutrition. To meet the future demand of agricultural production, we need to develop more productive and nutritious varieties of agricultural crops which incorporate both high intrinsic yield potential and resilience under climatic stresses. This requires discovery and deployment of superior but complex traits from the vast germplasm resources being held in various gene banks to agronomically superior varieties efficiently and precisely. Traits of breeders
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