Maize Research in India: Retrospect and Prospect

Contents: 1. Maize Research and Development in Uttarakhand/R.K. Khulbe, N.K. Singh, Dibakar Mahanta, Rajashekara H.J. Stanley and A. Pattanayak. 2. Maize Research and Development in Himachal Pradesh/S.K. Guleria, D.R.Thakur, S.D. Sharma, Rakesh Devlash Gopal Katna, V.K. Rathee and Uttam Chandel. 3. Maize Research and Development in Jammu and Kashmir/Bashir A. Alie, Zahoor A. Dar,  Ajaz A. Lone,  Gulzaffar, F.A. Nehvi M.I. Makdoomi, S.A. Dar, R.S. Sudan, Abu Manzar, M.A. Ahangar H.R. Naik and  S.Z. Hussain. 4. Maize Research and Development in Punjab/J.S. Chawla, Tosh Garg, Gurjit Kaur Gill, Mahesh Kumar Jawala Jindal and Harleen Kaur. 5. Maize Research and Development in Haryana/M.C. Kamboj, Narender Singh, Maha Singh Jaglan Rakesh Mehra and Preeti Sharma. 6. Maize Research and Development in Uttar Pradesh/J.P. Shahi, Varsha Gayatonde, Anima Mahato, M.V. Singh R.K. Srivastava and H.C. Singh. 7. Maize Research and Development in Chhattisgarh/S.K. Sinha and A.K. Sinha. 8. Maize Research and Development in Bihar/Mritunjay Kumar and Ajay Kumar. 9. Maize Research and Development in Jharkhand/M. Chakraborty, C.S. Singh, V.K. Tudu and M.K. Chakravarty. 10. Maize Research and Development in West Bengal/Srabani Debnath, Sonali Biswas and Anirban Maji. 11. Maize Research and Development in Odisha/Digbijaya Swain, Pramila Naik, Devraj Lenka B. Baisakh and Sanjay Pani. 12. Maize Research and Development in Assam/Nabajyoti Bhuyan and Binod Kalita. 13. Maize Research and Development in Maharashtra/S.R. Kulkarni, S.S. Mahadik, V.M. Londhe, P.K. Pawar S.A. Patil and M.S. Pilane. 14. Maize Research and Development in Karnataka/Mruthunjaya C. Wali, Hulihalli U.K., Harlapur S.I., Kachapur R.M. Talekar S.C., Puttaramanaik, Shobha D. and Mallikarjun N. 15. Maize Research and Development in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana/Lavakumar Reddy M., Narsimha Reddy V., Sreelatha D.Swarnalatha V. and Ameer Basha S. 16. Maize Research and Development in Tamil Nadu/Ravikesavan R., G. Nallathambi, A.P. Sivamurugan N. Kumari Vinothana, P. Renukadevi, S. Manimegalai, P. Thukkaiyanan K. Sethuraman and R. Radhajeyalakshmi. 17. Maize Research and Development in Madhya Pradesh/V. K. Paradkar, R.K. Sharma, Mahender Singh and  Narendra Kumawat. 18. Maize Research and Development in Gujarat/S.M. Khanorkar, P.K. Parmar, K.H. Patel and V.J. Patel. 19. Maize Research and Development in Rajasthan/Dilip Singh, S.S. Sharma, P. Rokadia, V. Nepalia, D. Chouhan B.L. Baheti, M. Mahala, M. Vyas and Hargilas. 20. Maize Research in India : Historical Perspective Current Scenario and Future Challenges/Vinay Mahajan and Bhupender Kumar. 21. Maize Disease Research in India : Progress and Future Thrust/Meena Shekhar and Pravin Kumar Bagaria. 22. Recent Innovations in Maize Research for Development/B.M. Prasanna. 23. Nutritional Quality Improvement of Maize in India/Firoz Hossain, Vignesh Muthusamy, Rajkumar U. Zunjare, Abhijit K. Das Konsam Sarika, Sweta Dosad, Sunil K. Jaiswal, Rashmi Chhabra Shankar L. Jat, Jayant S. Bhat, Bhupender Kumar, Mukesh Choudhary Dharam Paul Chaudhary, Satish K. Guleria, Narendra K. Singh, Javaji C. Sekhar, Vinay Mahajan, Om P. Yadav and Hari S. Gupta/24. Conventional and Molecular Breeding Approaches for Abiotic Stresses Tolerance in Maize/Bhupender Kumar, Mukesh Choudhary, Vishal Singh, Harpreet Kaur, Shraddha Srivastava, Tanu Tiwari and Vinod Kumar. 25. Improvement of Industrially Important Traits in Maize/Vishal Singh, Mukesh Choudhary, Alla Singh, Pravin Kumar Bagaria Mamta Gupta, Bhupender Kumar, Chikkappa G. Karjagi, Shankar Lal Jat Vinay Mahajan and Pardeep Kumar. 26. Quality Seed Availability of Maize in India: Status and Strategy/Bijendra Pal. 27. Frontier Technologies in Maize Improvement/Krishan Kumar, Mamta Gupta, Alla Singh, Chetana Aggarwal, Mukesh Choudhary, C.M. Parihar, Ishwar Singh and Pranjal Yadava. 28. Value Addition in Maize for Nutritional Security/Shobha D. and Usha Singh. 29. Specialty Corn : A Rich Souce of Quality Fodder/D.P. Chaudhary and Balwinder Kumar. 30.  Maize Insect Pest Management Research in India: Progress and Future Thrust/Suby S.B., Pradyumn Kumar, Soujanya L.P., Jaswinder Kaur Chikkappa G.K., Jawala Jindal, M.L.K. Reddy, Maha Singh S.S. Mahadik, M.K. Mahala, T. Alam and J.C. Sekhar.

This book 'Maize Research in India: Retrospect and Prospect' focuses on 60 years of maize research in India’s through first All India Coordinated Research Project (AICRP) of the country. The book chapters compiled from different part of the country having contemporary and historical importance of maize research for development in the country. Theses state-wise chapters offering a comprehensive overview and provides a detailed information about trend of the major growing areas, maize based industries, cropping systems, agricultural practices, AICRP achievements, constraints in maize production, package of practices, yield gaps, climatic patterns and key R4D challenges and their probable solutions. Overall, it demonstrates the options for future progress and thrust of maize with special reference to nutritional and industrial quality improvement, hybrid seed production, cultivation of specialty corn, value addition, biotic and abiotic stress management, etc. The book also has a chapter on the recent worldwide R4D in maize molecular breeding and frontier technologies in maize improvement like genomic selection, transgenic, phonemics, doubled haploid (DH) technology etc for making plausible future strategy of maize R4D.