Synopsis
1. Setting the Background
a) Trends in Agricultural Product Demand: Functional Foods and Value Added Products
b) Evolving New Crop Cultivars
i. Achievements
ii. Obstacles and Challenges
a) Germplasm Exchange: International Laws and Governance
b) Biotech Crops and Biosafety Issuesiii. Alternatives
iv. Scope of genetic mapping and Marker Assisted Selection
c) Need for this Book: What can be expected?
2. Germplasm Characterization: Utilizing the Underexploited Resources
a) Types of Germplasm: Natural Vs Man-made (crop specific germplasm repository, mutagenized population), Global Germplasm Resourcesb) Phenotyping for morphological and agronomic traits
i) Conventional Methods of phenotyping: Biotic and Abiotic Stress Resistance, Yield and Quality Traits
ii) Recent Developments in Phenomics and Way Forwardiii) Case study in rice germplasm characterization for drought resistance: Formation of fundamental requirements
iv) Traits useful for characterization
c) Allele mining
d) Genetic diversity and Clustering
i) Software
ii) Principle behind the genetic diversity analysis
iii) Principle of measuring goodness-of-fit of a classificatione) Genetic Diversity analysis using molecular markers
f) DNA Barcoding and its utilization of germplasm exploitation
g) Polymorphic Information Content and its importance
h) Diversity and Phylogenetic Tree: Importance in Mapping Population Development
i) Parental selection
3. Mapping Population Development
a) Mapping population and its importance in genetic mapping
b) Selfing and Crossing techniques i
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