Molecular Breeding in Wheat, Maize and Sorghum: Strategies for Improving Abiotic Stress Tolerance and Yield

By: Pradeep Kumar and Natasha Sharma and Shabir Hussain Wani and Santosh Kumar and Muhammad Sarwar Khan and Charan Singh and Rod Snowdon and Pardeep Kumar and Professor David Edwards and Andrea Acuna and Muhammad Amjad Ali and John Amalraj and Maria Arguello and Arushi Arora and Diana Ballesteros and Bhoja R Basnet and Salma Bhyan and Richard Boyles and Faïçal Brini and Yibo Cao and S Antony Ceasar and Nidhi Chakma and Subhadra Chakrabarty and Moutoshi Chakraborty and Harmeet Singh Chawla and Dharampal Choudhary and Mukesh Choudhary and M C Dagla and Mônica Furaste Danilevicz and Abhijit Kumar Das and Haixiao Dong and Kate Dreher and Susanne Dreisigacker and Xiaorong Fan and Maria Laura Federico and Cassandria Tay Fernandez and Ertugrul Filiz and Monika Garg and Claudia Teixeira Guimaraes and Karama Hamdi and K Hariprasanna and Firoz Hossain and Guanghui Hu and Zhaorong Hu and B S Jat and Caifu Jiang and Faiz Ahmad Joyia and Mehar Kamboj and Chikkappa Karjagi and Lovenpreet Kaur and Emna Khanfir and Rajesh Khulbe and Bhupender Kumar and Firat Kurt and Zhao Li and Yun-Hua Liu and Ningthaipuilu Longmei and Damar Lopez-Arredondo and Jurandir Vieira de Magalhaes and T Maharajan and Jacob Marsh and R. Esten Mason and Clémentine Mercé and Ghulam Mustafa and Vignesh Muthusamy and Sudha K Nair and Zhongfu Ni and Kazutoshi Okuno and Geoffrey Onaga and Huiru Peng and Jorge Fernando Pereira and Sacn Perera and Bhukya Prakash and Lydia Pramitha and P Rajendrakumar and Mantena Raju and Savaram Vr Rao and Ali Razzaq and P Sanjana Reddy and Trenton Roberts and G Victor Roch and Umesh R Rosyara and Pawan Saini and Sindhu Sareen and Gajanan Saykhedkar and André Schaffasz and Armin Scheben and Tariq Shehzad and Sonia Sheoran and Ishwar Singh and Prabha Singh and Vishal Singh and Nithya Subramanian and Qixin Sun and Madhumal Thayil Vinayan and Yiqiao Wang and Steffen Windpassinger and Kerstin Wydra and Yinping Jiao and Mingming Xin and Ines Yacoubi and Pranjal Yadava and Yingyin Yao and Kuohai Yu and Yaping Yuan and Pervez Haider Zaidi and Hong-Bin Zhang and Meiping Zhang and Zhiwu Zhang and Rajkumar U Zunjare

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Synopsis: The global population is projected to reach almost 10 billion by 2050, and food and feed production will need to increase by 70%. Wheat, maize and sorghum are three key cereals which provide nutrition for the majority of the world's population. Their production is affected by various abiotic stresses which cause significant yield losses. The effects of climate change also increase the frequency and severity of such abiotic stresses. Molecular breeding technologies offer real hope for improving crop yields. Although significant progress has been made over the last few years, there is still a need to bridge the large gap between yields in the most favorable and most stressful conditions. This book: - Provides a valuable resource for wheat, maize and sorghum scientists working on breeding and molecular biology, physiology and biotechnology. - Presents the latest in-depth research in the area of abiotic stress tolerance and yield improvements. - Contains the necessary information to allow plant breeders to apply this research to effectively breed new varieties of these crops. It provides a consolidated reference for plant breeders and crop scientists working on the challenges of enhanced crop productivity and climate change adaptability.