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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...

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Other Authors: Al-Khayri, Jameel M., Jain, S. Mohan., Johnson, Dennis Victor, 1937-, SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Cham : Springer, 2021.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (545 pages)
Subjects:
Vegetables -- Breeding.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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