Accelerated Plant Breeding, Volume 3

Dr. Satbir Singh Gosal has been Bursary holder, The Royal Society, London, is a former Director at the School of Agricultural Biotechnology, and Ex-Director of Research at Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India. He was, an Honorary Member of the Board of Assessors (Australian Research Council, Canberra), Biotechnology Career Fellow, The Rockefeller Foundation, USA, and President of the Punjab Academy of Sciences. He has published more than 200 research papers in refereed journals and 35 book chapters. He has co-authored one Text Book and co-edited 5 Books including 3 with Springer. Dr. Shabir Hussain Wani received his PhD in Genetics and Plant Breeding from Punjab Agricultural University. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers and edited 13 books on plant stress physiology, including 7 with Springer. He also served as a Review Editor for Frontiers in Plant Science from 2015 to 2018. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Mountain Research Centre for Field Crops of the Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural, Sciences and Technology of Kashmir in India.

Foreword.- Preface.- Efficient Breeding of Pulse Crops.- Advances in Chickpea Breeding and Genomics for Varietal Development and Traits Improvement in India.- Conventional and Biotechnological Approaches for Trait Targeted Improvement in Lentil.- Updates Pigeonpea Breeding and Genomics for Yield Improvement in India.- "Genomics-Assisted Breeding Green Gram (Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek) for Accelerating Genetic Gain".- Breeding For High Yielding and Disease Resistant Urdbean Cultivars.- Lentil Breeding in Genomic Era: Present Status and Future Prospects.- Chickpea Breeding for Abiotic Stress: Breeding Tools and 'Omics' Approaches for Enhancing Genetic Gain.- Recent Advances in Mungbean Breeding - A Perspective.- Genetic Advancement in Dry Pea (Pisum Sativum L.): Retrospect and Prospect.- Translational Genomics and Breeding in Soybean.- Efficient Improvement in an Orphan Legume, Horsegram, Macrotyloma uniflorum (Lam.) Verdi, using Conventional and Molecular Approaches.- Molecular and Conventional Breeding Strategies for Improving Biotic Stress Resistance in Common Bean.- Index.