Advances in plant breeding strategies Vegetable crops. Volume 10, Leaves, flowerheads, green pods, mushrooms and truffles /
Plant breeders and geneticists are under constant pressure to sustain and expand food production by using innovative breeding strategies and introducing minor crops, which are well adapted to marginal lands, provide a source of nutrition, and have abiotic and biotic stress tolerance, to feed an ever...
| Other Authors: | Al-Khayri, Jameel M., Jain, S. Mohan., Johnson, Dennis Victor, 1937-, SpringerLink (Online service) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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2021.
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1 online resource (545 pages) |
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Plant breeders and geneticists are under constant pressure to sustain and expand food production by using innovative breeding strategies and introducing minor crops, which are well adapted to marginal lands, provide a source of nutrition, and have abiotic and biotic stress tolerance, to feed an ever-increasing human population. The basic concept of this book is to examine the use of innovative methods, augmenting traditional plant breeding, towards the improvement and development of new crop varieties, under the increasingly limiting environmental and cultivation factors, to achieve sustainable agricultural production and enhanced food security. Three volumes of the book series Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies were published in 2015, 2016 and 2018, respectively: Volume 1. Breeding, Biotechnology and Molecular Tools; Volume 2. Agronomic, Abiotic and Biotic Stress Traits and Volume 3. Fruits. In 2019, the following four volumes were published: Volume 4. Nut and Beverage Crops, Volume 5. Cereals, Volume 6. Industrial and Food Crops and Volume 7. Legumes. Recent volumes published in 2021 include: Volume 8. Vegetable Crops: Bulbs, Roots and Tubers, Volume 9. Vegetable Crops: Fruits and Young Shoots and Volume 10. Vegetable Crops: Leaves, Flowerheads, Green Pods, Mushrooms and Truffles. This Volume 10, subtitled Vegetable Crops: Leaves, Flowerheads, Green Pods, Mushrooms and Truffles, consists of 14 chapters focusing on advances in breeding strategies using both traditional and modern approaches for the improvement of individual vegetable crops. Chapters are arranged in 4 parts according to the edible vegetable parts. Part I: Leaves - Chicory, Chinese cabbage, Rocket salad, Spring onion, Water spinach and Watercress; Pat II: Flowerheads and Green Pods - Cauliflower, Globe artichoke, Garden pea and Yardlong bean; Part III: Mushrooms - Enoki mushroom and Shiitake mushroom; Part IV: Truffles - Desert truffles and White truffle. Each chapter comprehensively reviews the contemporary literature on the subject and reflects the experiences of the authors. Chapters are written by internationally-reputable scientists and subjected to a review process to assure quality presentation and scientific accuracy. Each chapter begins with an introduction covering related backgrounds and provides in-depth discussion of the subject supported with high-quality color photos, illustrations and relevant data. The chapter concludes with recommendations for future research directions, a comprehensive list of pertinent references to facilitate further reading, and appendixes of genetic resources and concerned research institutes. This book series is a valuable resource for advanced students, researchers, scientists, commercial producers and seed companies as well as consultants and policymakers interested in agriculture, particularly in modern breeding technologies. |
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Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Editors -- Contributors -- Part I: Leaves -- Chapter 1: Advances in Chicory (Cichorium intybus L.) Breeding Strategies -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.1.1 Botanical Classification and Distribution -- 1.1.2 Chicory Importance -- 1.1.2.1 Economic Importance -- 1.1.2.2 Nutritional and Pharmaceutical Properties -- 1.1.3 Domestication, Selection and Early Improvements -- 1.2 Current Cultivation Practices and Challenges -- 1.2.1 Current Cultivation Practices -- 1.2.2 Current Agricultural Problems and Challenges. 1.2.3 Genetic Improvement Objectives -- 1.3 Germplasm Biodiversity and Conservation -- 1.3.1 Germplasm Diversity -- 1.3.2 Cultivars Characterization and Phylogeny -- 1.3.3 Genetic Resources Conservation Approaches -- 1.3.3.1 In Situ Conservation -- 1.3.3.2 Cryopreservation -- 1.3.3.3 In Vitro Conservation -- 1.3.3.4 Gene Banks -- 1.3.4 Cytogenetics -- 1.4 Traditional Breeding -- 1.4.1 Improvement of Strategies -- 1.4.2 Traditional Breeding Methodologies and Limitations -- 1.4.3 Role of Biotechnology -- 1.5 Molecular Breeding -- 1.5.1 Molecular Marker-Assisted Breeding -- 1.5.2 Functional Genomics. 1.5.3 Bioinformatics -- 1.6 Tissue Culture Application -- 1.6.1 Micropropagation Approaches -- 1.6.2 Embryo Rescue -- 1.6.3 In Vitro Pollination -- 1.6.4 Synthetic Seed -- 1.7 Genetic Engineering and Gene Editing -- 1.8 Mutation Breeding -- 1.8.1 Mutation Breeding -- 1.8.2 In Vitro Mutagenesis and Selection -- 1.8.3 Molecular Analysis -- 1.8.4 Enhanced Traits and Improved Cultivars -- 1.9 Hybridization -- 1.9.1 Conventional Hybridization -- 1.9.2 Somatic Cell Hybridization -- 1.9.3 Hybrid Cultivars -- 1.10 Conclusions and Prospects -- Appendixes. Appendix I: List of Major Institutes Engaged in Chicory Research -- Appendix II: World List of Varieties and Wild Types of Chicory -- References -- Chapter 2: Chinese Cabbage (Brassica rapa L. var. pekinensis) Breeding: Application of Molecular Technology -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Important Traits for Breeding and Cultivation -- 2.3 Molecular Breeding -- 2.3.1 Basic Genetic Information -- 2.3.2 Self-Incompatibility -- 2.3.2.1 Regulation of Self and Non-self Recognition -- 2.3.2.2 Dominance Relationship of Brassica -- 2.3.2.3 Disruption of Self-incompatibility for Pollination Control. 2.3.2.4 Downstream of SRK and Strength of Self-Incompatibility -- 2.3.2.5 Other Genes Affecting Pollen-Stigma Interaction -- 2.3.2.6 Determination and Discrimination of S Haplotypes -- 2.3.3 Heterosis and Hybrid Vigor -- 2.3.4 High Bolting Resistance -- 2.3.5 Clubroot Disease Resistance -- 2.3.5.1 P. brassicae and Its Life Cycle -- 2.3.5.2 Population Diversity and Pathotype Determination of P. brassicae -- 2.3.5.3 Sources and QTLs for Clubroot Resistance -- 2.3.5.4 Prospects of Marker-Assisted Breeding in Developing Clubroot Resistant Chinese Cabbage -- 2.3.6 Fusarium Wilt Disease Resistance -- 2.4 Genetic Engineering. Includes index. Plant breeders and geneticists are under constant pressure to sustain and expand food production by using innovative breeding strategies and introducing minor crops, which are well adapted to marginal lands, provide a source of nutrition, and have abiotic and biotic stress tolerance, to feed an ever-increasing human population. The basic concept of this book is to examine the use of innovative methods, augmenting traditional plant breeding, towards the improvement and development of new crop varieties, under the increasingly limiting environmental and cultivation factors, to achieve sustainable agricultural production and enhanced food security. Three volumes of the book series Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies were published in 2015, 2016 and 2018, respectively: Volume 1. Breeding, Biotechnology and Molecular Tools; Volume 2. Agronomic, Abiotic and Biotic Stress Traits and Volume 3. Fruits. In 2019, the following four volumes were published: Volume 4. Nut and Beverage Crops, Volume 5. Cereals, Volume 6. Industrial and Food Crops and Volume 7. Legumes. Recent volumes published in 2021 include: Volume 8. Vegetable Crops: Bulbs, Roots and Tubers, Volume 9. Vegetable Crops: Fruits and Young Shoots and Volume 10. Vegetable Crops: Leaves, Flowerheads, Green Pods, Mushrooms and Truffles. This Volume 10, subtitled Vegetable Crops: Leaves, Flowerheads, Green Pods, Mushrooms and Truffles, consists of 14 chapters focusing on advances in breeding strategies using both traditional and modern approaches for the improvement of individual vegetable crops. Chapters are arranged in 4 parts according to the edible vegetable parts. Part I: Leaves - Chicory, Chinese cabbage, Rocket salad, Spring onion, Water spinach and Watercress; Pat II: Flowerheads and Green Pods - Cauliflower, Globe artichoke, Garden pea and Yardlong bean; Part III: Mushrooms - Enoki mushroom and Shiitake mushroom; Part IV: Truffles - Desert truffles and White truffle. Each chapter comprehensively reviews the contemporary literature on the subject and reflects the experiences of the authors. Chapters are written by internationally-reputable scientists and subjected to a review process to assure quality presentation and scientific accuracy. Each chapter begins with an introduction covering related backgrounds and provides in-depth discussion of the subject supported with high-quality color photos, illustrations and relevant data. The chapter concludes with recommendations for future research directions, a comprehensive list of pertinent references to facilitate further reading, and appendixes of genetic resources and concerned research institutes. This book series is a valuable resource for advanced students, researchers, scientists, commercial producers and seed companies as well as consultants and policymakers interested in agriculture, particularly in modern breeding technologies. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (545 pages) |
| ISBN: |
3030669696 9783030669690 |