Advanced molecular plant breeding : meeting the challenge of food security / edited by D. N. Bharadwaj, PhD.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sustainable agriculture and food security : 2050 (future plant breeding) / D.N. Bharadwaj -- Application of genotype and environmental interactions in plant breeding / Chandra Nath Mishra, Satish Kumar, K. Venkatesh, Vikas Gupta, Devmani Bind, and Ajay Verma -- Forward and reverse genetics in plant breeding / Masochon Raingam, Megha Bhatt, Akash Sinha, and Pushpa Lohani -- Biodiversity and conservation of plant genetic resources (in-situ and ex-situ) / Sheel Yadav, Chet Ram, and Dhammaprakash Pandhari Wankhede -- Uses and importance of wide hybridization in crop improvement / Vikas Gupta, Chandra Nath Mishra, and Satish Kumar -- Application of mutation breeding in plants / A.K. Mehta and M.H. Basha -- Applications of molecular marker-assisted breeding in plants / S. Pandey and V.C. Pandey -- Importance of genomic selection in crop improvement and future prospects / Satish Kumar, Senthilkumar K. Muthusamy, Chandra N. Mishra, Vikas Gupta, and Karnam Venkatesh -- Application and achievements of recombinant DNA technology in crop improvement / Rakesh Kumar, H.M. Mamrutha, Karnam Venkatesh, Kashi Nath Tiwari, and Satish Kumar -- Plant tissue culture techniques and its achievements / S. Pandey and V.C. Pandey -- Breeding strategies to convert C3 plants into C4 plants / Akshaya Kumar Biswal, Arun Kumar Singh, Vivek Thakur, Satendra Kumar Mangrauthia, and Revathi Ponnuswamy -- Molecular pharming (pharmaceuticals) : primary and secondary metabolites in plants / Mir Zahoor Gul, Mohd Yasin Bhat, Anirudh Kumar, and Beedu Sashidhar Rao -- Plant-based edible vaccines : an innovative concept to immunization / Rajeev Sharma, Nishi Mody, and Suresh P. Vyas -- Breeding for nutritional quality enhancement in crops : biofortification and molecular farming / Rahul Priyadarshi, Hitendra Kumar Patel, and Anirudh Kumar -- Terminator technology (GURT technology) / D.R. Mehta and A.K. Nandha -- Omics in plant breeding / D.R. Mehta and Ramesh Kumar -- RNA interference (RNAI) technology in biology and plant breeding / Dinesh Narayan Bharadwaj -- Genome editing in plant breeding / D.R. Mehta and A.K. Nandha -- Nanobiotechnology in agriculture / D.N. Bharadwaj and Sanjay Kumar Singh.