Rice–wheat cropping system, intensively followed in Indo-Gangetic plains (IGP), played a
prominent role in fulfilling the food grains demand of the increasing population of South …

The high selection pressure applied in rice breeding since its domestication thousands of
years ago has caused a narrowing in its genetic variability. Obtaining new rice cultivars …

Background Heat stress is one of the major abiotic threats to rice production, next to drought
and salinity stress. Incidence of heat stress at reproductive phase of the crop results in …

Soil salinity is one of the most serious environmental challenges, posing a growing threat to
agriculture across the world. Soil salinity has a significant impact on rice growth …

Rice nutritional quality is one of the major concerns along with productivity enhancement to
feed the continuously growing population. To address wide-spread malnutrition influencing …

After a basic description of the different sets of genetic tools and genomic approaches most
relevant for modern crop breeding (eg, QTL mapping, GWAS and genomic selection; …

Mutant populations are crucial for functional genomics and discovering novel traits for crop
breeding. Sorghum, a drought and heat‐tolerant C4 species, requires a vast, large‐scale …

Water stress is one of the most severe constraints to crop productivity. Plants display a
variety of physiological and biochemical responses both at the cellular and whole organism …

Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) is the fifth most important cereal crop worldwide; however, its
utilization in food products can be limited due to reduced nutritional quality related to amino …

The Indian initiative, in creating mutant resources for the functional genomics in rice, has
been instrumental in the development of 87,000 ethylmethanesulfonate (EMS)-induced …