QTL Mapping in Crop Improvement

Present Progress and Future Perspectives

1st Edition - November 19, 2022
Editors: Shabir Hussain Wani, Dechun Wang, Gyanendra Pratap Singh
Language: English
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QTL Mapping in Crop Improvement: Present Progress and Future Perspectives presents advancements in QTL breeding for biotic and abiotic stresses and nutritional improvement in a range of crop plants. The book presents a roadmap for future breeding for resilience to various stresses and improvement in nutritional quality. Crops such as rice, wheat, maize, soybeans, common bean, and pigeon pea are the major staple crops consumed globally, hence fulfilling the nutritional requirements of global populations, particularly in the under-developed world, is extremely important. Sections cover the challenges facing maximized production of these crops, including diseases, insect damage, drought, heat, salinity and mineral toxicity.

Covering globally important crops including maize, wheat, rice, barley, soybean, common bean and pigeon pea, this book will be an important reference for those working in agriculture and crop improvement.

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Table of Contents
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Contributors
Chapter 1: Recent advances in molecular marker technology for QTL mapping in plants
Abstract
1: Introduction
2: Advances in marker developments
3: Trait associations and QTL mapping
4: Conclusion
References
Chapter 2: A statistical perspective of gene set analysis with trait-specific QTL in molecular crop breeding
Abstract
Acknowledgment
1: Background
2: Structure of gene set analysis
3: GSA approaches for high-throughput GE studies
4: Statistical approach for gene set analysis with QTLs
5: Statistical perspectives of GSAQ
6: Limitations and future challenges of GSA
References
Chapter 3: Crop improvement against Colletotrichum truncatum using molecular breeding approaches
Abstract
1: Introduction
2: Genus Colletotrichum
3: The biotrophy–necrotrophy switch
4: Colletotrichum truncatum
5: Soybean anthracnose
6: Conclusion and future prospects
References
Chapter 4: Molecular breeding for drought and heat stress in maize: Revisiting the progress and achievements
Abstract
1: Introduction
2: Effects of drought and heat stress and plant response
3: Molecular breeding
4: Conclusion and future perspectives
References
Chapter 5: Molecular breeding for improving yield in maize: Recent advances and future perspectives
Abstract
1: Introduction
2: Molecular breeding
3: Why to use MB?
4: Molecular breeding for grain yield: Key considerations
5: Molecular breeding for yield improvement: Broad outlines
6: Molecular breeding schemes
7: Perspectives
References
Chapter 6: Abiotic stress tolerance in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.): Molecular breeding perspectives
Abstract
Acknowledgments
Conflict of interest
1: Introduction
2: Impact of abiotic stresses on wheat
3: Genomic regions/QTL associated with abiotic stresses
4: Molecular breeding for abiotic stress tolerance
5: High-throughput genotyping platforms: Assist wheat molecular breeding
6: Speed breeding for accelerating plant breeding
7: Conclusions and future outlook
References
Chapter 7: Advances in QTL mapping for biotic stress tolerance in wheat
Abstract
1: Introduction
2: Significant diseases and insect pests of wheat
3: QTL approach and its importance in biotic stress improvement in wheat
4: QTL mapping on diseases and pests of wheat
5: Conclusion and future perspectives
References
Chapter 8: Drought stress tolerance in wheat: Recent QTL mapping advances
Abstract
1: Introduction: Global importance of wheat
2: Climate change effect on wheat
3: Physiology of wheat plant
4: Drought stress mechanism in wheat
5: Advances in molecular breeding techniques
6: Wheat QTL mapping for drought tolerance
References
Chapter 9: Wheat biofortification: A molecular breeding outlook
Abstract
1: Introduction
2: Wheat grain components
3: Strategies for combating hidden hunger
4: Biofortification for GPC
5: Biofortification for grain zinc content
6: Biofortification for grain iron content
7: Biofortification for grain selenium content
8: Phytic acid—Culprit for hidden hunger
9: Biofortification for pigments
10: Conclusion
References
Further reading
Chapter 10: Identification of tolerance for wheat rusts: Insights in recent QTL mapping efforts
Abstract
1: Introduction
2: Impact of biotic stresses on wheat production
3: Wheat rust diseases
4: Insects-pests affecting wheat
5: Viral diseases
6: Types of rusts attack on wheat and mode of action
7: Wheat stem rust
8: Wheat stripe rust
9: Wheat leaf rust
10: Conventional breeding and molecular techniques to control rusts attack
11: Stem rust resistance
12: Stripe rust resistance in wheat
13: Leaf rust resistance in wheat
14: QTL mapping for rusts attacks
15: Summary
References
Chapter 11: Abiotic and biotic stress tolerance in rice: Recent advances in molecular breeding approaches
Abstract
1: Introduction
2: QTL mapping approaches
3: Statistical techniques used for mapping QTLs
4: QTLs/resistance genes identified in rice
5: Conclusion
References
Chapter 12: Genetic improvement of rice grain quality
Abstract
1: Introduction
2: Rice grain quality evaluation according to consumers’ preference
3: Genes/QTL for rice grain quality
4: Conclusion
References
Chapter 13: Translating genetics into genomics: From QTL identification to candidate gene discovery in rice
Abstract
1: Introduction
2: Sources of genetic variation and roles of quantitative trait loci
3: Types of QTLs
4: QTL mapping
5: Mining of QTL underlying candidate genes
6: Rice improvement using functionally characterized QTLs and genes
7: Conclusion and future prospects
References
Chapter 14: Recent progress in molecular breeding approaches to improve drought tolerance in barley
Abstract
1: Introduction
2: Bases of drought tolerance
3: Morphology and physiological mechanisms of drought stress tolerance
4: Genetic basis of drought tolerance: Four main approaches
5: Genome editing and functional validation of identified genes
6: Challenges and future perspectives
References
Further reading
Chapter 15: Molecular breeding for the development of drought stress tolerance in soybean
Abstract
1: Molecular breeding for plant breeding
2: Plant breeding through mutation induction
3: Improvement of drought stress tolerance in soybean
References
Chapter 16: Molecular breeding for groundnut (peanut) improvement: Present status and future prospects
Abstract
1: Introduction
2: Description on different target traits for groundnut improvement
3: Genetic markers and development of genetic linkage maps
4: Trait mapping and QTL discovery
5: Molecular breeding and its achievements
6: Conclusion
References
Chapter 17: Common bean disease improvement using QTL mapping
Abstract
1: Introduction
2: Genotyping for QTL mapping
3: Next-generation sequencing methods for genotyping
4: SNP arrays
5: PCR-based genotyping
6: Different mapping populations
7: Populations used in common bean
8: Linkage map in common bean
9: Pathogen causing diseases in common bean
References
Chapter 18: Small millet improvement using molecular breeding approaches
Abstract
1: Introduction
2: Origin, domestication, and taxonomy
3: Small millet improvement production constraints and breeding targets
4: Conventional breeding approaches
5: Genomic resources and genomics-assisted breeding approaches
6: Gene mapping
7: Future challenges and prospects
References
Chapter 19: An advanced breeding approach toward Sorghum improvement
Abstract
1: Introduction
2: Origin and taxonomy
3: Sorghum improvement
4: Future scenario of sorghum improvement
5: Molecular diversity among cultivated and wild sorghums
6: Genetic linkage maps of sorghum
7: Marker-assisted recurrent selection
8: Genomic selection
9: MAS in sorghum
10: Conclusions
References
Index

Shabir Hussain Wani

Shabir Hussain Wani is Scientist cum Assistant Professor at Shere-e- Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir where his research focuses on plant breeding and genetics/plant biotechnology. Included among his awards are: Fellow of the Linnean Society of London-2017 YOUNG SCIENTIST Award (2017), Indian Ecological Society Punjab Agricultural University Ludhiana. Young Scientist of the Year 2016, International foundation for Environment and Ecology Kolkata India. YOUNG ACHIEVER AWARD – 2016, Society for Advancement of Human and Nature (SADHNA) YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry YOUNG SCIENTIST Award (2015), Society for Plant Research, Meerut, India YOUNG SCIENTIST Award (2009), Society for Promotion of Plant Science Research. Jaipur National University, Jaipur. FELLOW OF SOCIETY FOR PLANT RESEARCH AWARD – 2011-12

Affiliations and expertise

Assistant Professor Senior Scale, Mountain Research Canter for Field Crops, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, J&K, India

Dechun Wang

Prof. Dechun Wang is Associate Professor, Dept. of Crop and Soil Sciences. Since 2007 his research has focused on genetic mapping of QTL conferring resistance to soybean aphid, while mold and other traits, soybeam molecular genetics and the molecular genetics and techniques of plant breeding. The shanghai Commission of Sciences and Technology awarded him for the introduction of Japanese peach cultivar Okayamawase, and for the “Investigation and proposal for shanghai fruit production for the year 2000”. He also received a Fellowship from the State Educational Commission of China as a Visiting Scholar to the University of California before receiving his Graduate Fellowship to Michigan State.

Affiliations and expertise

Associate Professor, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, A384-E Plant and Soil Sci. Bldg, Michigan State Univerity, East Lansing, MI, USA

Gyanendra Pratap Singh

Dr. G.P. Singh has vast experience in wheat research for more than 25 years. He has developed 37 wheat varieties and 34 genetic stocks suited to different agro climatic zones of the country. Dr. Singh has published more than 160 research and review papers in reputed peer journals. He is recipient of several prestigious awards such as Rafi Ahmed Kidwai award and BP Pal Gold Medal. He is fellow of many scientific academies and societies such as National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Indian Society of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Society of Advancement of Wheat Research, Society for Scientific Development in Agriculture and Technology. He has actively organised several workshops and symposia and chaired many scientific sessions. He is actively involved in mobilization of wheat technologies from lab to farmer’s field.

Affiliations and expertise

Director, ICAR-National Bureau for Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi, India

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