The first edition of this book, Genetic Mapping and Marker Assisted Selection: Basics, Practice and Benefits, was widely appreciated as the first of its kind on this topic and has been listed as a reference work in several agricultural universities' curricula. A great deal has happened over the last five years, making it high time to incorporate recent developments in genetic mapping and report on novel strategies in marker assisted selection in crop plants as a second edition.

This book addresses a range of topics, including: new marker types and their genotyping methods based on high-throughput technologies, advances in genomics and their role in new marker development, improvements in genetic mapping strategies and software updates, developments in phenomics and their applications in QTL mapping, and how to incorporate these developments and advances in marker assisted selection in crop plants. Similar to the first edition, each technique and method is explained usinga step-by-step method, allowing the book to serve as a self-study guide for scholars whose work involves the genetic improvement of crop plants for any trait of interest, particularly for biotic and abiotic stress resistance.

In addition, the book offers a valuable guide for undergraduate and graduate students at agricultural universities and institutes that are interested and/or involved in the genetic improvement of crop plants using modern tools. In addition, the bibliography includes a list of suggested works for pursuing further research on the topics covered.

Auteur

Dr. N. Manikanda Boopathi is currently working as a Professor (Biotechnology) at the Department of Plant Biotechnology, CPMB&B, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), Coimbatore, India. He completed his Master's and Doctoral studies in Plant Biotechnology at TNAU and subsequently trained at the International Rice Research Institute, the Philippines. He has taught more than 25 courses for undergraduate and graduate students and offered invited lectures and demonstrations at several institutions both in India and abroad. His scientific works have been honored with several awards. He has extensive experience in QTL mapping and marker assisted selection in rice, cotton, mungbean and tomato. He has successfully completed several national and international research projects and is currently engaged in nationwide and worldwide network projects that address the problems of biotic and abiotic stress. His publications and other details can be found at https://sites.google.com/a/tnau.ac.in/drnmb/home. 

Contenu

1. Setting the Background

a) Trends in Agricultural Product Demand: Functional Foods and Value Added Products

b) Evolving New Crop Cultivars

i. Achievements

ii. Obstacles and Challenges

a) Germplasm Exchange: International Laws and Governance b) Biotech Crops and Biosafety Issues

iii. Alternatives

iv. Scope of genetic mapping and Marker Assisted Selection

c) Need for this Book: What can be expected?

2. Germplasm Characterization: Utilizing the Underexploited Resources a) Types of Germplasm: Natural Vs Man-made (crop specific germplasm repository, mutagenized population), Global Germplasm Resources

b) Phenotyping for morphological and agronomic traits

i) Conventional Methods of phenotyping: Biotic and Abiotic Stress Resistance, Yield and Quality Traits ii) Recent Developments in Phenomics and Way Forward

iii) Case study in rice germplasm characterization for drought resistance: Formation of fundamental requirements

iv) Traits useful for characterization

c) Allele mining

d) Genetic diversity and Clustering

i) Software

ii) Principle behind the genetic diversity analysis iii) Principle of measuring goodness-of-fit of a classification

e) Genetic Diversity analysis using molecular markers f) DNA Barcoding and its utilization of g...