{"product_id":"smart-breeding-hardback","title":"Smart Breeding - Hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis new volume focuses on novel breeding and biotechnological approaches for crop improvement, covering recent advances in molecular breeding and plant breeding, such as pre-breeding, reverse breeding, allele mining, next-generation sequencing, etc. The authors consider the important necessity and development of climate-resilient crops that can withstand hostility or adversities of climate without substantially compromising yield and discuss ways to mitigate plant stress.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe recent developments in breeding and biotechnological approaches concerning crop improvement that are discussed in the book include molecular markers, their genesis, and their significant applications for crop improvement; QTL mapping, a modern breeding approach for mapping quantitative traits; pulse molecular breeding and genomics; and approaches for precise gene alterations in the genome of organisms by using genome editing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOther techniques include reverse breeding, a technique that allows breeders to develop parental lines directly from the heterozygous plant within a shorter time frame; pre-breeding approaches for biotic and abiotic stress management in crop plants; allele mining as a way to find existing variations in an organism’s gene pool by scanning the entire gene; marker-assisted selection, where molecular markers have played a significant role in accelerating breeding programs; and next-generation sequencing (NGS) platforms in crop improvement, where the authors summarize the technical know-how of each sequencing platform and its merits and demerits.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book introduces the design and importance of Mutmap and its variant in modern breeding, a novel gene mapping approaches that allows rapid identification of causal nucleotide changes of mutants by whole-genome resequencing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExamples and case studies of the various approaches are included as well, with several examples of marker-assisted selection of rice and maize crop and other agriculturally important crops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis informative volume will enhance readers’ knowledge about the recent developments in breeding and biotechnological approaches concerning crop improvement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45584153510126,"sku":"9781774913314","price":247.2,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/smart-breeding-hardback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}