Tremendous progress has been made with continually expanding genomics technologies to
unravel and understand crop genomes. However, the impact of genomics data on crop …

Historically, unintentional plant selection and subsequent crop domestication, coupled with
the need and desire to get more food and feed products, have resulted in the continuous …

A major challenge for crop research in the 21st century is how to predict crop performance
as a function of genetic architecture. Advances in “next generation” DNA sequencing have …

With the rapid development of genetic analysis techniques and crop population size,
phenotyping has become the bottleneck restricting crop breeding. Breaking through this …

This book represents a pioneer initiative to describe the new technologies available for next-
generation phenotyping and applied to plant breeding. Over the last several years plant …

Since whole-genome sequencing of many crops has been achieved, crop functional
genomics studies have stepped into the big-data and high-throughput era. However …

Recent advances in plant genomics and molecular biology have revolutionized our
understanding of plant genetics, providing new opportunities for more efficient and …

Crop yield must urgently be sustainably increased to accommodate a rising global
population and anticipated climate change in the coming decades, in the face of plant …

Major improvements in crop yield are needed to keep pace with population growth and
climate change. While plant breeding efforts have greatly benefited from advances in …

In recent past, genomic tools especially molecular markers have been extensively used for
understanding genome dynamics as well for applied aspects in crop breeding. Several new …