Plant Mutagenesis and Crop Improvement (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Kumar, Nitish

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together all the important and relevant literature in the field. It provides a complete account of the mutation breeding of crops, presenting conclusions about the value of the method, its possibilities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003834243
• Artikelnr.: 69690547

Autorenporträt

Nitish Kumar has been Senior Assistant Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, Central University of South Bihar, Gaya, Bihar, India, for the last 12 years. Dr. Kumar completed his doctoral research at the CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research)-Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India. He has research experience in a wide variety of areas in the field of crop improvement using plant biotechnology and mutation breeding techniques. He has published more than 70 research articles in leading international and national journals, more than 20 book chapters, and 7 books with Springer and Taylor & Francis. Dr. Kumar received the Young Scientist Award from the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) in 2014 He has received many awards/fellowships/projects from various prestigious Indian government organizations such as CSIR, DBT, ICAR, SERB-DST, and BRNS-BARC. He is a reviewer for various international journals and serves as an associate editor of the journal Gene (Elsevier).

Inhaltsangabe

1 Mutagenesis as a Tool in Plant Genetics, Functional Genomics, and
Breeding
2 Epigenetic Architecture of Complex Traits in Plants
3 Induced mutagenesis for gene pool expansion with special attention on
pulse crops
4 Transposon mutagenesis for functional genomics in cereals
5 Application of Nuclear Techniques in crop improvement: A review
6 Applications of DNA marker techniques in plant mutation research
7 Cryptic Genetic Variation in Evolution and Crop Improvement
8 Mutagenesis in Plant Tissue Culture
9 Genetic Improvement using Induced Mutagenesis with Special Reference to
Pulses: A Review
10 Variants of CRISPR/Cas technology and their role in rice genetic
improvement