Cereal Crops Genetic Resources and Breeding Techniques

Cereal Crops: Genetic Resources and Breeding Techniques provides the reader practical tools for understanding relationships and challenges of successful farming; improvements to genetic modifications; and environmentally sound methods of production of bulk and quality cereals including wheat, maize, rice, barley, and millets. It explores the trait mapping, cropping systems, genome engineering, and identification of specific germplasms needed for the more effective development of biotic and abiotic stress resistant cereals within the framework of ensuring future food supplies around the world.

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Focuses on cropping systems, genetics and genome engineering for higher crop production at a global level.

Features information on specific prebiotic formulas to ward off adverse effects of antibiotics.

Covers mechanistic as well as practical approaches for enhancing crop production in a sustainable way.

Includes further in-depth analysis of various topics following each chapter.

This is a vital resource for researchers, crop biologists, and students working with crop production and climate changes that have a significant impact on crop production, spanning basic to advanced level discussions of plant breeding, molecular genetics, and agronomy. Covering mechanistic and practical approaches for enhancing crop production in a sustainable way, this text is beneficial to intensive farmers and stakeholders in the field of crop production.

1Farming Systems Improvements in Different Regions.Cosmas Parwada, Justin Chipomho, and Nyamande Mapope

2Stepwise Intensification Option for Enhancing Cereal-Based Cropping Systems. Waleed Fouad Abobata, Clara R. Azzam, and Sahar A. Sherif

3Cereal Yield in Dry Environments: Adaptability of Barley vs. Wheat. Waleed Fouad Abobata, Clara R. Azzam, and Sahar A. Sherif

4Cereal Performance and Senescence. Misbah Naz, Sajid Hussain, Sania Zaib, Akmal Zubair, Muhammad Tariq, Zhicong Dai, and Daolin Du

5Cereal Responses to Nutrients and Avenues for ImprovingNutrient Use Efficiency. Ghulam Haider, Muhammad Ansar Farooq, Tariq Shah, Saadatullah Malghani, Masood Iqbal Awan, Muhammad Habib-ur-Rahman, Attia Rubab Khalid,and Abdul Ghaffar

6Genetic Resources of Cereal Crops: Collection, Characterization, and Conservation. P.E. Rajasekharan and G.S. Anil Kumar

7Resistance Identification and Implementation: Genomics-Assisted Use of Genetic Resources for Breeding against Abiotic Stress. A.M. Shackira, Nair G. Sarath, Mathew Veena, Riya Johnson, S. Jeyaraj, K.P. Aswathy Raj, and Jos T. Puthur

8Genomics-Assisted Use of Genetic Resources for Environmentally Adaptive Plant Breeding: Salinity Tolerance. Murat Aycan, Marouane Baslam, Toshiaki Mitsui, and Mustafa Yildiz

9Metabolomics-Assisted Breeding for Enhancing Yield and Quality of Cereals.Qurat ul Ain Sani, Nosheen Fatima, Qurat ul Ain Ali Hira,Rimsha Azhar, Midhat Mahboob, Salman Nawaz Faiza Munir and Rabia Amir

10 Metabolic Responses in Plants under Abiotic Stresses.Ahmad Ali, Kiran Khurshid, Namrah Ahmad, Nida Mushtaq, Rabia Amir, and Faiza Munir

11Climate Change and Cereal Modeling: Impacts and Adaptability. Arzoo Ahad, Sami Ullah Jan, Khola Rafique, Sameera Zafar, Murtaz Aziz Ahmad, Faiza Abbas, and Alvina Gul

12Genetic Transformation Methods in Cereal Crops. Noor-ul-Ain Malik, Faiza Munir,Saba Azeem, Rabia Amir, Maria Gillani, Alvina Gul, Aneela Mustafa, and Nosheen Fatima

13Genome-Edited Cereal Characterization Using Metabolomics.Sania Zaib, Shomaila Mehmood, Misbah Naz, Muhammad Tariq, and Sadia Banaras

14Multiplexed Genome Editing in Cereals: Trait Improvement Using CRISPR/Cas9. Fozia Saeed, Sherien Bukhat, Tariq Shah, Sumaira Rasul, Habib-ur-Rehman Athar, and Hamid Manzoor

Tariq Shah is presently working as a research associate in University of Agriculture Peshawar. He Completed his Masters degree from the Department of Agronomy, University of Agriculture Peshawar, Pakistan. He also visited China for research purposes. His research work involves plant stress physiology, plant microbe interaction coping with weather adversity and adaptation to climatic variability. He has published over 16 articles in peer-reviewed journals and 14 chapters. He is currently editing a book entitled Brassica species production under climatic extremes, Springer Beijing. He is a reviewer for more than 10 peer-reviewed international journals and was a recipient of the Elsevier Peer Review Award 2020. He has also organized two national and three international conferences in Pakistan. His ongoing collaboration is with different countries like China, Taiwan, Germany, USA in plant stress physiology. He is also the recipient of different awards from Higher Education Commission.

Marcelo Carvalho Minhoto Teixeira Filho has a Masters Degree (2008) and a PhD (2011) in Agronomy from the Faculty of Engineering of Ilha Solteira (FEIS) at São Paulo State University (UNESP). He completed a short-term internship (2017) as Visiting Professor at Plant Nutrition Group, ETH Zürich, Switzerland. Since 2013, he has been Assistant Professor in the Department of Plant Protection, Rural Engineering and Soils (DEFERS) at UNESP where he teaches the discipline of Plant Nutrition. Since July 2018, he has served as editor-in-chief of the agronomic crop journal Revista Cultura Agronômica. He is an associate member of the Brazilian Association of Scientific Editors (ABEC) and current president of the Permanent Research Commission (CPP) of FEIS-UNESP. His research interests include plant nutrition, fertilization, soil fertility, improved efficiency fertilizers, plant growth-promoting bacteria associated with fertilization reduction, Azospirillum brasilense, wheat, corn, soybean,