Editors:
- Includes examples of ongoing activities in genomic selection for crop improvement and efforts initiated to deploy the genomic selection in important crops
- Serves as a handbook, providing basic as well as advanced analysis of genomic selection
- Provides insight into phenotyping evaluation, marker genotyping methods, and statistical models involved in genomic selection
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Genomic Selection for Crop Improvement serves as handbook for users by providing basic as well as advanced understandings of genomic selection. This useful review  explains germplasm use, phenotyping evaluation, marker genotyping methods, and statistical models involved in genomic selection. It also includes examples of ongoing activities of genomic selection for crop improvement and efforts initiated to deploy the genomic selection in some important crops. In order to understand the potential of GS breeding, it is high time to bring complete information in the form of a book that can serve as a ready reference for geneticist and plant breeders.
Editors and Affiliations
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Center of Excellence in Genomics, Research Program - Genetic Gains, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, India
Rajeev K. Varshney, Manish Roorkiwal
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Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
Mark E. Sorrells
About the editors
Rajeev K. Varshney is a Global Research Program Director for Genetics Gains at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and Wintrhop Research Professor at the University of Western Australia. For the last 20 years, he has been engaged in translating genomic information in international agriculture through genomics-assisted breeding, especially in grain legume crops.
Manish Roorkiwal is a scientist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT). He is working on developing and deploying forward breeding approaches such as genomic selection for legume improvement.
Mark E. Sorrells is Professor of Plant Breeding and Genetics with 40 years of research experience in crop improvement. He is a Fellow at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future and Fellow at the Cornell Institute for Food Systems. He is a pioneer and practitioner in optimising and deploying modern breeding approaches, including genomic selection in wheat improvement.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Genomic Selection for Crop Improvement
Book Subtitle: New Molecular Breeding Strategies for Crop Improvement
Editors: Rajeev K. Varshney, Manish Roorkiwal, Mark E. Sorrells
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63170-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-63168-4Published: 20 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87489-0Published: 24 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-63170-7Published: 05 December 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 258
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Agriculture, Plant Genetics and Genomics, Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography, Plant Anatomy/Development, Plant Physiology
Industry Sectors: Biotechnology, Chemical Manufacturing, Consumer Packaged Goods, Engineering, Pharma