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Genetics, Genomics and Breeding of Peanut: An Introduction

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Title Genetics, Genomics and Breeding of Peanut: An Introduction
 
Creator Mallikarjuna, N
Varshney, R K
 
Subject Groundnut
Genetics and Genomics
 
Description Peanut stands second to soybean in both area and production in the
world among legume oilseeds crops and is grown in >100 countries.
Genetic barriers "have-not allowed sharing of useful alleles from wild
relatives leaving the primary gene pool with a very narrow genetic
base. Improving pod yield and oil content have been the main
focus, along with providing resistance/tolerance against important
biotic/abiotic stresses. Realizing the ever increasing demand among
consumers, productivity needs to be increased significantly without
compromising the oil quality and providing defense shield against biotic
and abiotic stress. It is very difficult to achieve the above milestones
without integrating the modern genomics tools with conventional
breeding programs. The last decade witnessed significant progress
in terms of genomic resources'and molecular breeding activities. The
objective of this book is to critically review the current updates on
different aspects of peanut such as germplasm collections, genetics,
genomics, transcriptomics, bioinformatics together with traditional
and molecular breeding. The book also summarizes the success stories
achieved through trait mapping and application of molecular markers in improving important traits. This chapter provides highlights of
different chapters which are expected to be a good resource for young
researchers, breeders and policy makers for employing better strategies
towards food security.
 
Publisher CRC Press
 
Contributor Mallikarjuna, N
Varshney, R K
 
Date 2014
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/8146/1/ch1_2014.pdf
Mallikarjuna, N and Varshney, R K (2014) Genetics, Genomics and Breeding of Peanut: An Introduction. In: Genetics, Genomics and Breeding of Peanuts. Genetics, Genomics and Breeding of Crop Plants . CRC Press, pp. 1-12. ISBN 978-1-4822-3835-8 ; 978-1-4822-3837-2