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Crop breeding prospects in the genomics era

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Title Crop breeding prospects in the genomics era
 
Creator Kumar, Sushil
Prasad, Manoj
 
Subject Crop breeding
 
Description Grain/cereal crop yields need to be increased in the range
of 5 tha-1, to meet the challenge of international food requirements, in the
near future. Post-green revolution, conventional plant breeding and related procedures had limited success and grain crop yields have stagnated.
The developments in plant genomics offer new means for genetic improvement in crop plants, such as transgenesis and marker aided precise
selection of rare recombinants. A strategy, based on the use of existing
genomic information on the genetic control of drought tolerance in
Arabidopsis thaliana, for breeding wheat for high yields and drought tolerance is exemplified. In future plant breeding, the importance of
systems approach, involving multidisciplinary contributions, to the
understanding of gene structure X environment interactions in respect of
the concerned genes at whole plant or crop level is emphasized.
 
Date 2013-11-06T05:22:51Z
2013-11-06T05:22:51Z
2007
December 2006
 
Type Article
 
Identifier Journal of New Seeds, 8(3): 29-49
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/75
 
Language en
 
Publisher Taylor & Francis Group