Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies: Vegetable Crops

Volume 10: Leaves, Flowerheads, Green Pods, Mushrooms and Truffles

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

Av Jameel M. Al-Khayri, S. Mohan Jain, Dennis V. Johnson

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Plant breeders and geneticists are under constant pressure to sustain and expand food production by using innovative breeding strategies and introducing minor crops, which are well adapted to marginal lands, provide a source of nutrition, and have abiotic and biotic stress tolerance, to feed an ever-increasing human population.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-08-28
Mått155 x 235 x 29 mm
Vikt940 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor540
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030669713

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Prof. Jameel M. Al-Khayri is a Professor of plant biotechnology affiliated with the Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia. He received B.S. in Biology in 1984 from the University of Toledo, M.S. in Agronomy in 1988, and Ph.D. in Plant Science in 1991 from the University of Arkansas.Prof. Shri Mohan Jain is a Consultant and Plant Biotechnologist, Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; received M. Phil, 1973 and Ph.D., 1978, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.Prof. Dennis V. Johnson is a Consultant and Former University Professor. He is a graduate of the University of California Los Angeles where he completed his B.A. (1966), M.A. (1970) and Ph.D. (1972) degrees in geography, with specialization in agriculture and biogeography.

Preface.- Part I: Leaves.- Chapter 1. Advances in Chicory (Cichorium intybus L.) Breeding Strategies (Laila Aldahak, Khaled F. M. Salem, Salih H. F. Al-Salim, and Jameel M. Al-Khayri).- Chapter 2. Chinese Cabbage (Brassica rapa L. var. pekinensis) Breeding: Application of Molecular Technology (Takumi Okamoto, Xiaochun Wei, Hasan Mehraj, Mohammad Rashed Hossain, Ayasha Akter, Naomi Miyaji, Yoshinobu Takada, Jong-In Park, Ryo Fujimoto, Ill-Sup Nou, and Masao Watanabe).- Chapter 3. Breeding Advances and Prospects in Rocket Salad (Eruca vesicaria ssp. sativa Mill.) Cultivation (Pasquale Tripodi, Paula Santos Coelho, and Carla Guijarro-Real).- Chapter 4. Spring Onion (Allium fistulosum L.) Breeding Strategies (Fatimah Kayat, Ahmed Mahmood Ibrahim, and Arifullah Mohammed).- Chapter 5. Water Spinach (Ipomoea aquatica Forsk.) Breeding (Moumita Gangopadhyay, Anup Kumar Das, Subhendu Bandyopadyay, and Samanwita Das).- Chapter 6. Watercress (Nasturtium officinale R. Br.) Breeding (MohammadrezaHassandokht, Sajad Jafari, and Raheleh Ebrahimi).- Part II: Flowerheads and Green Pods.- Chapter 7. Advances in Cauliflower (Brassica oleracea var. botrytis L.) Breeding, with Emphasis on India (Pritam Kalia and Shrawan Singh).- Chapter 8. Globe Artichoke (Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus L.) Breeding (Fernando López-Anido and Eugenia Martin).- Chapter 9. Breeding Strategies of Garden Pea (Pisum sativum L.) (Amal M.E. Abdel Hamid and Khaled F.M. Salem).- Chapter 10. Genetic Improvement of Yardlong Bean (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp. ssp. sesquipedalis (L.) Verdc.) (Pidigam Saidaiah, Thuraga Vishnukiran, Someswar Rao Pandravada, Natarajan Sivaraj, Adimulam Srivani, Amarapalli Geetha, Nimmarajula Srinivas, and Venkateswaran Kamala).- Part III: Mushrooms.- Chapter 11. Enoki Mushroom (Flammulina velutipes (Curtis) Singer) Breeding (Ved P. Sharma, Anupam Barh, Rakesh Kumar Bairwa, Sudheer K. Annepu, Babita Kumari and Shwet Kamal).- Chapter 12. Shiitake Mushroom (Lentinula edodes (Berk.) Sing.) Breeding in China (Quanju Xiang, Bilal Adil, Qiang Chen, Yunfu Gu, Xianfu Zeng, and Xinzhu Li).- Part IV: Truffles.- Chapter 13. Desert Truffles (Terfezia spp.) Breeding (Asunción Morte, Francisco Arenas, José E. Marqués-Gálvez, Alberto Andrino, Ángel L. Guarnizo, Almudena Gutiérrez, Luis Miguel Berná, Manuela Pérez-Gilabert, Antonio Rodríguez, and Alfonso Navarro-Ródenas).- Chapter 14. Enhancing White Truffle (Tuber magnatum Picco and T. borchii Vittad.) Cultivation through Biotechnology Innovation (Alessandra Zambonelli, Mirco Iotti, Federico Puliga, and Ian R. Hall).