Overview
- Demonstrates how advances in plant molecular breeding can be utilized for producing improved vegetables with climate-smart traits
- Highlights abiotic stress tolerance
- Includes contributions by international authors
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This book reviews modern strategies in the breeding of vegetables in the era of global warming. Agriculture is facing numerous challenges in the 21st century, as it has to address food, nutritional, energy and environmental security. Future vegetable varieties must be adaptive to the varying scenarios of climate change, produce higher yields of high- quality food and feed and have multiple uses. To achieve these goals, it is imperative to employ modern tools of molecular breeding, genetic engineering and genomics for ‘precise’ plant breeding to produce ‘designed’ vegetable varieties adaptive to climate change.
This book is of interest to scientists working in the fields of plant genetics, genomics, breeding, biotechnology, and in the disciplines of agronomy and horticulture.
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Book Title: Genomic Designing of Climate-Smart Vegetable Crops
Editors: Chittaranjan Kole
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97415-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-97414-9Published: 03 March 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-97415-6Published: 02 March 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 383
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 44 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Climate Change, Agriculture, Plant Genetics and Genomics