Disease Resistance in Crop Plants

Dr. Shabir Hussain Wani is senior assistant professor at Mountain Research Centre for Field Crops, Khudwani –192101, Sher-e-Kashmir University  of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, J&K, India . He received Ph.D.  degree in plant breeding and genetics on “transgenic rice for abiotic stress tolerance” from the Punjab Agricultural University Ludhiana, India. After obtaining his Ph.D. he worked as research associate in the Biotechnology Laboratory, Central Institute of Temperate Horticulture (ICAR), Srinagar, India. He then joined the Krishi Vigyan Kendra (Farm Science Centre) as program coordinator at Senapati, Manipur, India. He teaches courses related to plant breeding, seed science and technology, and stress breeding and has published more than 100 papers/chapters in journals and books of international and national repute. He served as guest editor and reviews editor for journal Frontier in Plant Science (2015-2018). He has also edited several books on current topics in crop improvement for abiotic stress tolerance published by Springer Nature and CRC press USA. His Ph.D. research won first prize in the North Zone Competition, at national level, in India. He was awarded a Young Scientist Award from the Society for Promotion of Plant Sciences, Jaipur, India, in 2009. He is a fellow of the Society for Plant Research, India. Recently he also received Young Scientist Award (Agriculture) 2015 from Society for Plant Research, Meerut, India. He also served as visiting Scientist at Department of Plant Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, USA under the UGC Raman Post Doctoral Fellowship programme. His post doc research results on genetic dissection of pythium resistance in soybean using SNP markers was published in G3, published by Genetics Society of America.

• Foreword.- Biotic and abiotic stresses, impact on plants and their response.- Cloning of genes underlying quantitative resistance for plant disease control.- CRISPR based tools for crop improvement: Understanding the plant pathogen interaction.- Disease resistance in wheat: present status and future prospects.- Rice, Marker-assisted breeding and Disease Resistance.- Genome Wide Association Study (GWAS) on Disease Resistance in Maize.- Molecular breeding approaches for disease resistance in sugarcane.- Molecular breeding for resistance to economically important diseases of Pulses.- Molecular Breeding for Resistance to Economically Important Diseases of Fodder Oat.- Charcoal rot resistance in soybean-current understanding and future perspectives.- Barley, Disease Resistance, and Molecular breeding approaches.- Index.