Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies: Agronomic, Abiotic and Biotic Stress Traits

Part I. Sustainability, Nutrition and Pharmaceuticals.- 1. Sustainable Agriculture and Plant Breeding.- 2. Breeding Crop Plants for Improved Human Nutrition through Biofortification: Progress and Prospects.- 3. Role of Genomics in Enhancing Nutrition Content of Cereals.- 4. Molecular Farming using Transgenic Approaches.- Part II. Forage and Tree Traits.- 5. Forages: Ecology, Breeding Objectives and Procedures.- 6. Breeding vis-à-vis Genomics of Tropical Tree Crops.- 7. Coconut Breeding in India.- Part III. Abiotic Stress Tolerance.- 8. Molecular Breeding to Improve Plant Resistance to Abiotic Stresses.- 9. Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) Marker for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants.- 10. Transgenic Approach for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants.- 11. Breeding Strategies to Enhance Drought Tolerance in Crops.- 12. Breeding Strategies for Enhanced Plant Tolerance to Heat Stress.- 13. QTLs for Genetic Improvement under Global Climate Changes.- 14. Genotype x Environment Interaction Implication: A Case Study of Durum Wheat Breeding in Iran.- Part IV. Biotic Stress Resistance.- 15. Breeding Strategies for Improving Plant Resistance to Diseases.- 16. Breeding and Genetics of Resistance to Fusarium Wilt in Melon.- 17. Viral, Fungal and Bacterial Disease Resistance in Transgenic Plants.- 18. Current Status of Bacillus thuringiensis:Insecticidal Crystal Proteins and Transgenic Crops.- Index.