Crop Improvement : Strategies and Applications
Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. The \'-OMICS\' technologies and crop improvement/R.C. Setia and Neelam Setia. 2. Plant genome analysis: current developments/T.R. Sharma. 3. RNA interference: a novel approach for gene silencing/Ajay Arora and V.P. Singh. 4. DNA based methods for variety identification--comparison and applications/Adarsh Pal Vig and Aditi Rambani. 5. Elicitor biotechnology/I.L. Kothari, Janki Thakker and Miral Patel. 6. Marker-assisted selection and breeding: potentials and its applications in some major crops/Anil Kant, S.K. Sharma and Dorin Gupta. 7. Genetic control of wheat rusts in the Indian sub-continent/R.G. Saini and Renu Khanna. 8. Genetics of rust resistance in wheat: an update/Dharam Pal and Sanjay Kumar. 9. Genetic transformation in fruit crops/R. Kaur, K. Kumar and D.R. Sharma. 10. Biotechnological approaches for developing stress tolerant crops: current developments and prospects/Harsh Nayyar, Jahid A. Malik, Shilpa Goel, Kamaljit Singh and Neelam Setia. 11. Approaches to enhance salt tolerance in crop plants: progress and prospects/P.C. Sharma and R.K. Singh. 12. Heavy metal toxicity in plants and phytoremediation/R.C. Setia, Navjyot Kaur, Neelam Setia and Harsh Nayyar. 13. Climate change and plant diseases/Satvinder Kaur and Vineet K. Sharma. 14. Recent trends in the management of insect-pests in pulses/P.K. Mehta, Pankaj Sood, P.C. Sharma and Anjana Patial. 15. Indian citrus ringspot virus--a review/S. Sharma, B. Singh, G. Rani, A.A. Zaidi, S.K. Thind, G.S. Virk and A. Nagpal. 16. Recent advances in host-parasite interaction: Chickpea-Ascochyta rabiei and Botrytis cinerea systems/Ashwani K. Basandrai, Suresh Pande and Daisy Basandrai. 17. Recent trends in Oilsed Brassicas/S.K. Gupta and Aditya Pratap. 18. Quality characteristics, nutritional improvement and product development properties of grains/Y.S. Dhaliwal. 19. Starch metabolism in plants: potential target for crop improvement/Bavita Asthir. 20. Regulation of nitrate reductase activity under water stress/Neeru S. Sharma and A.K. Tiku. 21. Polyamines: an overview and prospects in crop improvement/Neelam Setia and R.C. Setia. Index.
"The research in agricultural sciences is taking great strides with advancement in methodologies and techniques. It, therefore, becomes important to maintain pace as well as update oneself on the recent happenings in agricultural research. The present book is an effort to compile the recent information involving different articles pertaining to genomics, physiology, biochemistry, diseases and abiotic stresses. Thus, the chapters provide information on \'omics\' of plants that covers genomics, proteomics and metabolomics, molecular techniques for crop improvement, gene silencing, marker assisted selection for crops, biotechnology and genetic engineering for developing stress tolerant crops, elicitor biotechnology, salt stress effects, heavy metal stress and phytoremediation, genetics of wheat rust resistance, improvement of Brassicas, nutritional aspects of cereals and genetic transformation of fruit crops.
The book would be useful to the students and scientists working in the areas of agricultural research, and would provide current knowledge of diverse research areas through the reviews written by subject experts."
