Advances in plant breeding strategies, Vegetable crops. Volume 8, Bulbs, roots and tubers

Advances in plant breeding strategies, Vegetable crops. Volume 8, Bulbs, roots and tubers / Jameel M. Al-Khayri, S. Mohan Jain, Dennis V. Johnson, editors.

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-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, 2021.
Subjects:
Plant breeding.
Plant breeding
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Part I: Bulbs
  • Chapter 1. Traditional and Novel Approaches in Garlic (Allium sativum L.) Breeding (Einat Shemesh-Mayer and Rina Kamenetsky Goldstein)
  • Chapter 2. Genetic Improvement of Leek (Allium ampeloprasum L.) (Fevziye Celebi-Toprak and Ali Ramazan Alan)
  • Chapter 3. Shallot (Allium cepa L. Aggregatum group) Breeding (Haim D. Rabinowitch)
  • Part II: Roots
  • Chapter 4. Molecular Breeding Strategies of Beetroot (Beta vulgaris ssp. vulgaris var. conditiva Alefeld) (Farrag F.B. Abu-Ellail, Khaled F.M. Salem, Maysoun M. Saleh, Lina M. Alnaddaf, and Jameel M. Al-Khayri)
  • Chapter 5. Carrot (Daucus carota L.) Breeding (Philipp W. Simon)
  • Chapter 6. Parsnip (Pastinaca sativa L.) Breeding for the Future (Lauren H.K. Chappell and Adrian J. Dunford)
  • Chapter 7. Radish (Raphanus sativus L.): Breeding for Higher Yield, Better Quality and Wider Adaptability (Binod Kumar Singh)
  • Chapter 8. Sugar Beet (Beta vulgaris ssp. vulgaris L.) Improvement with Next-generation Breeding Technology (Chiara De Lucchi, Enrico Biancardi, George Skaracis, Marco De Biaggi, Ourania Pavli, Samathmika Ravi, Claudia Chiodi, Chiara Broccanello, and Piergiorgio Stevanato)
  • Chapter 9. Turnip (Brassica rapa var. rapa L.) Breeding (Hesham S. Abdel-Razzak)
  • Part III: Tubers
  • Chapter 10. Recent Advances in Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) Breeding (Emre Aksoy, Ufuk Demirel, Allahbakhsh Joiya, Muhammad Abu Bakar Zia, Muhammad Naeem Sattar, Faisal Saeed, Sevgi Calskan, and Mehmet Emin Calskan)
  • Chapter 11. Application of Genome Editing Tools to Accelerate Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) Breeding (Zafar Iqbal and Muhammad Naeem Sattar)
  • Chapter 12. Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas L.) Breeding (Jolien Swanckaert, Dorcus Gemenet, Noelle L. Anglin, and Wolfgang Gruneberg).

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