Molecular Breeding in Wheat, Maize and Sorghum

Mobashwer Alam is a Senior Research Fellow and a theme leader of Predictive Agriculture for Improved Productivity and Value at the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, UQ. He is the team leader of the QAAFI's National Passionfruit Breeding and Evaluation Program (PF22000). He has more than twenty-two years of experience in multi-disciplinary research, including plant breeding, quantitative genetics, genomics, plant physiology, and crop modelling. He is interested in developing rapid breeding tools and utilizing plant genomics in horticultural crop improvement. Dr. Shabir Hussain Wani Assistant Professor (Senior Scale) cum Scientist, Genetics and Plant Breeding at Mountain Research Centre for Field Crops, Khudwani, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Srinagar J&K, India. He received a Ph.D. degree in plant breeding and genetics on "transgenic rice for abiotic stress tolerance" from the Punjab Agricultural University Ludhiana, India. He then joined the Krishi Vigyan Kendra (Farm Science Centre) as program coordinator (i/c) at Senapati, Manipur, India. He teaches courses related to plant breeding, seed science and technology, and stress breeding and has published more than 200 papers/chapters in journals and books of international and national repute. He served as guest editor and reviews editor for journal Frontiers in Plant Science (2015-2018). He has also edited several books on current topics in crop improvement for abiotic stress tolerance published by Springer Nature and CRC press USA. His Ph.D. research fetched first prize in the North Zone Competition, at national level, in India during 2009. He also received Young Scientist Award (Agriculture) 2015 from Society for Plant Research, Meerut, India. He also served as visiting Scientist at Department of Plant Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, USA under the UGC Raman Post-Doctoral Fellowship programme during 2016-17. He was elected as Fellow of Linnean Society of London 2017. Recently he was felicitated with Award for Excellence in Research 2020 from Novel Research Academy, Puducherry, India. Recently Dr. Wani was selected as member of Expert Working Group (EWG) Wheat Initiative for Adaptation of Wheat to Abiotic Stress (AWAS), Berlin, Germany during January 2021. He is also elected as Joint Secretary (Asia) for the Society for Plant Research, Vegetos (2021-2024). Currently, he is in charge of Wheat improvement programme at MRCFC Khudwani SKAUST Kashmir under the ICAR-All India Coordinated Improvement Project on Wheat and Barley.

Chapter 1: Recent Understanding on Molecular Mechanisms of Plant Abiotic Stress Response and Tolerance Chapter 2: Breeding Strategies to Enhance Abiotic Stress Tolerance and Yield Improvement in Wheat, Maize and Sorghum Chapter 3: Recent Advancement of Molecular Breeding for Improving Salinity Tolerance in Wheat Chapter 4: Genomics and Molecular Physiology for Improvement of Drought Tolerance in Wheat Chapter 5: Molecular Breeding for Improving Heat Stress Tolerance in Wheat Chapter 6: Molecular Breeding for Improving Waterlogging Tolerance in Wheat Chapter 7: Molecular Breeding for Improving Aluminium Resistance in Wheat Chapter 8: Molecular Breeding for Enhancing Iron and Zinc Content in Wheat Grains Chapter 9: Recent Advancements of Molecular Breeding and Functional Genomics for Improving Nitrogen-, Phosphorus- and Potassium-Use Efficiencies in Wheat Chapter 10: Molecular Breeding for Improving Yield in Wheat: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives Chapter 11: Tools for Transforming Wheat Breeding: Genomic Selection, Rapid Generation Advance and Database-Based Decision Support Chapter 12: CRISPR-Mediated Gene Editing in Wheat for Abiotic Stress Tolerance Chapter 13: Application of Pangenomics for Wheat Molecular Breeding Chapter 14: Recent Advancement of Molecular Understanding for Combating Salinity Stress in Maize Chapter 15: Isolation of Genes/Quantitative Trait Loci for Drought Stress Tolerance in Maize Chapter 16: The Genetic Architecture and Breeding Towards Cold Tolerance in Maize: Review Chapter 17: Physiological and Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Excess Moisture Stress Tolerance in Maize: Molecular Breeding Opportunities to Increase Yield Potential Chapter 18: Recent Molecular Breeding Advances for Improving Aluminium Tolerance in Maize and Sorghum Chapter 19: Physiological and Molecular Interventions for Improving Nitrogen-Use Efficiency in Maize Chapter 20: Recent Advancement in Molecular Breeding for Improving Nutrient-Use Efficiency in Maize Chapter 21: Molecular Breeding for Increasing Nutrition Quality in Maize: Recent Progress Chapter 22: Molecular Breeding for Improving Yield in Maize: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives Chapter 23: CRISPR-Mediated Genome Editing in Maize for Improved Abiotic Stress Tolerance Chapter 24: Molecular Breeding for Combating Salinity Stress in Sorghum: Progress and Prospects Chapter 25: Quantitative Trait Locus mapping and Genetic Improvement to Strengthen Drought Tolerance in Sorghum Chapter 26: Improving Abiotic Stress Tolerance to Adapt Sorghum to Temperate Climatic Regions Chapter 27: Isolation of Quantitative Trait Loci/Gene(s) Conferring Cadmium Tolerance in Sorghum Chapter 28: Molecular Breeding for Increasing Micronutrient Content in Sorghum Chapter 29: Ideotype Breeding for Improving Yield in Sorghum: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives