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- Extensive compilation of breeding procedures and techniques for all the major field crops
- Presents status of breeding practices in each crop with strategies for breeding climate resilient crop varieties
- Complete coverage of plant breeding courses taught across the globe
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Dr. Harsh Kumar Dikshit is serving as Principal Scientist at ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi (India). He is working on genetic improvement of grain legumes through conventional and molecular approaches. He has developed fifteen varieties of different grain legumes (lentil, mungbean and dry beans) for cultivation in India. He is involved in development of leading mungbean varieties IPM 99-125, IPM 02-3, IPM 02-17 and Pusa 1431 and lentil varieties L 4717 and L 4727. His present focus is on basic and applied research on early maturity, biofortification and biotic stresses of lentil and mungbean. He is faculty of Division of Genetics and is involved in teaching of different courses and thesis research guidance to post graduate students. He has done his Masters and PhD in Plant Breeding from G.B.P.U.A. & T. Pantnagar (India). He is Fellow of ISGPB and ISRPD and recipient of several awards including ICAR-Dr. Rajendra Prasad Award-2020
Dr. Gyan Prakash Mishra is currently working as Principal Scientist at ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi (India). Before that he has worked at DRDO-Defence Institute of High Altitude Research, Leh (India) as Scientist ‘C’, ICAR-Directorate of Groundnut Research, Junagadh (India) and ICAR-Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Varanasi (India) as Senior Scientist. His major research interest includes crop improvement through conventional, molecular and transgenics approaches. He has done his master’s and PhD in Genetics from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi (India) and postdoc from University of California, Riverside and Purdue University, USA as BOYSCAST-Fellow. As a faculty of Division of Genetics, he is involved in teaching of different courses and also guiding the post-graduate students. He is the recipientof various prestigious awards including NAAS Associate-2018, NASI-Membership-2018, IARI-Merit Medal and Best Student Award-2001, ISCA-Pran Vohra Award-2012, DRDO-National Science day Award-2009, and ICAR-Dr. Rajendra Prasad Award-2020.
Dr. Shailesh Tripathi is currently working as Principal Scientist at ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi (India). Prior to joining IARI, he served as Scientist at International Crops Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad. He obtained his Ph.D. in Plant Breeding and Genetics in 2004 from G. B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar. He was involved in transfer of “QTL hotspot” containing quantitative trait loci for several root and drought tolerance traits into popular chickpea varieties of IARI resulting in the release of drought tolerant chickpea varieties. He also developed chickpea suitable for machine harvesting and extra-large seeded kabuli chickpea. He has published over 45 research papers in peer-reviewed journals. He is actively involved in teaching to post-graduate students as faculty of Genetics at IARI.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fundamentals of Field Crop Breeding
Editors: Devendra Kumar Yadava, Harsh Kumar Dikshit, Gyan Prakash Mishra, Shailesh Tripathi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9257-4
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-9256-7Published: 06 May 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-9258-1Published: 07 May 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-9257-4Published: 05 May 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 1389
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 98 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Sciences, Agriculture, Genetics and Genomics, Biotechnology