This new volume provides a better understanding of molecular plant breeding in order to
boost the quality of agriculture produce, to increase crop yields and to provide nutritious food …

The rapidly evolving technologies can serve as a potential growth engine in agriculture as
many of these technologies have revolutionized several industries in the recent past. The …

Plant functional genomics has revolutionized not only the methodologies for identification
and elucidation of key genes' function but also in designing strategies for improving …

Plants continuously encounter various environmental stresses and use qualitative and
quantitative measures to resist pathogen attack. Qualitative stress responses, based on …

Because of the variety of genetic components, plants are affected by complex genetic-
environment-management interactions that drive phenotypic plasticity. Reliable, automatic …

Plant genetics and genomics have revolutionized agricultural research, and a vast amount
of genomics resources have been developed in crop plants. However, these genomics …

The current agricultural and food system faces diverse and increasing challenges. These
include feeding an ever-growing human population, expected to reach about 10 billion by …

The deployment of omics technologies has obtained an incredible boost over the past few
decades with the advances in next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies, innovative …

Plant molecular biology has been the key driver to elucidate molecular pathways underlying
plant growth, development and stress responses during the past decades. Although this has …

This two-volume book collects 48 manuscripts that present a timely state-of-theart view on
how genomics of plant genetic resources contributes to improve our capacity to characterize …