Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies: Breeding, Biotechnology and Molecular Tools

Part I. Genetic Resource Utilization and Conservation.- 1. Plant Domestication and Utilization: The Case of the Pampa Biome.- 2. Decentralized Collaborative Plant Breeding for Utilization and Conservation of Neglected and Underutilized Crop Genetic Resources.- 3. Plant Cryopreservation for Biotechnology and Breeding.- 4. Mutants as a Genetic Resource for Future Crop Improvement.- Part II. Breeding Strategies.- 5. Conventional Plant Breeding Principles and Techniques.- 6. Applying Epigenetics in Plant Breeding: Balancing Genome Stability and Phenotypic Plasticity.- 7. Progress and Perspectives of Distant Heterosis in Rice.- 8. Forward and Reverse Genetics in Crop Breeding.- 9. Doubled Haploid Breeding in Cereals.- Part III. In Vitro Culture and Transgenic Approaches.- 10. Applications of In Vitro Techniques in Plant Breeding.- 11. Induced Mutations in Plant Breeding.- 12. Alternative to Transgenesis: Cisgenesis and Intragenesis.- 13. Transgenic Pyramiding for Crop Improvement.- 14. RNAi Technology: A Potential Tool in Plant Breeding.- Part IV. Molecular Breeding.- 15. Molecular Marker-Assisted Breeding: A Plant Breeder's Review.- 16. Mutant-Based Reverse Genetics for Functional Genomics of Non-Model Crops.- 17. Prospects of Functional Genomics in Sugarcane.- 18. Potentials of Proteomics in Crop Breeding.- 19. Utilization of Diverse Sequencing Panels for Future Plant Breeding.- 20. Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Tools and Impact in Plant Breeding.- 21. Molecular Breeding for Genetic Improvement of Cotton (Gossypium spp.).- Index.