BookChittaranjan Kole, editor.
Summary: This edited book provides a comprehensive overview of modern strategies in fruit crop breeding in the era of climate change and global warming. It demonstrates how advances in plant molecular and genomics-assisted breeding can be utilized to produce improved fruit crops with climate-smart traits. Agriculture is facing a number of challenges in the 21st century, as it has to address food, nutritional, energy and environmental security. Future fruit varieties must be adaptive to the varying scenarios of climate change, produce higher yields of high-quality food, feed, and fuel and have multiple uses. To achieve these goals, it is imperative to employ modern tools of molecular breeding, genetic engineering and genomics for precise plant breeding to produce designed fruit crop varieties. This book is of interest to scientists working in the fields of plant genetics, genomics, breeding, biotechnology, and in the disciplines of agronomy and horticulture.
Contents:
Intro
Preface
Contents
Abbreviations
1 Genomic Designing for New Climate-Resilient Almond Varieties
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Designing Climate-Resilient Almond Varieties
1.3 Prioritizing Climate-Smart (CS) Agronomic Traits
1.3.1 Flowering Time
1.3.2 Cold Tolerance
1.3.3 Drought Resistance
1.3.4 Chemical and Nutritional Values
1.4 Marker-Assisted Breeding for CS Traits
1.4.1 Development and Application of DNA Markers
1.4.2 Development and Application of RNA Markers
1.4.3 Development and Application of Epigenetic Marks 1.5 Concluding Remark and Future Prospects
References
2 Challenges and Strategies for Developing Climate-Smart Apple Varieties Through Genomic Approaches
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Impact of Climate Change on Apple
2.3 Need for Adaptation to Climate Change
2.4 Efforts to Develop Climate-Smart Apple Varieties
2.4.1 Dormancy and Dormancy Release
2.4.2 Abiotic Stress
2.4.3 Biotic Stress
2.4.4 Fruit Quality
2.4.5 Root Stock Characterization
2.5 Molecular Mapping of Genes/QTLs
2.6 Digital Breeding for Development of Climate-Smart Apple Varieties 2.6.1 Apple Databases
2.6.2 Other Digital Resources Available for the Apple Breeders
2.6.3 Data Repositories for the Gene Banks
2.6.4 Digital Image-Based Phenotyping
2.7 Concluding Remark and Future Prospects
References
3 Genomic Designing for New Climate-Resilient Apricot Varieties in a Warming Context
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Design of New Climate-Resilient Apricot Varieties
3.3 Prioritizing Climate-Smart (CS) Agronomic Traits
3.3.1 Flowering Time
3.3.2 Drought Resistance
3.3.3 Fruit Quality and Nutritional Values
3.4 Marker-Assisted Selection 3.4.1 Development and Application of DNA Markers
3.4.2 Development and Application of RNA Markers
3.4.3 Development and Application of Epigenetic Markers
3.5 Concluding Remark and Future Prospects
References
4 Breeding Climate-Resilient Bananas
4.1 Introduction
4.2 The Structure and Physiology of Banana
4.3 Plant Physiological Responses to Water Deficit
4.4 Molecular Approaches to Drought Stress in Banana
4.5 Breeding
4.5.1 Defining the Scope of the Breeding Program
4.5.2 Challenges Specific to Banana Breeding
4.5.3 Phenotyping 4.5.4 Defining the Appropriate Environment for Phenotyping
4.6 Recommendations
References
5 Toward Development of Climate-Resilient Citrus
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Prioritizing Climate-Smart (CS) Traits
5.2.1 Role of Exogenous and Endogenous Factors in Flowering
5.2.2 An Insight into the Responses of Citrus to Different Abiotic Stresses
5.2.3 Molecular Mechanism of Citrus-Xylella Fastidiosa Interactions Revealed by Transcriptome Characterization
5.3 Linkage Mapping and Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) Analysis
5.3.1 Genomics-Aided Breeding for CS Traits