The research field of “plant speed breeding" is promising to meet the future demand for crop improvement in an efficient and effective manner. The process accelerates breeding and research programs through the shortening of the generation time of crops. Plant Speed Breeding and High-Throughput Technologies explores and analyzes a range of innovations from CRISPR/Cas9-based genome editing to state-of-the-art controlled-environment growth chambers.
The book integrates achievements of plant speed breeding technologies with an emphasis on the fundamental and advanced systems for genome editing, functional genomics, controlled-environment growth chambers, genomic and phenotypic selection methods, and high-throughput technologies. It examines the applications of technologies across major model plants and key crops such as cereals, vegetables, and fruit trees. The book explores high-throughput genotyping using next-generation sequencing systems, enabling precise single nucleotide polymorphism markers, quantitative trait loci mapping, and genome-wide association studies . These tools are used in identifying candidate genes that will revolutionize crop breeding, as they are capable of tolerating complex abiotic and biotic stresses induced by global climate change.
Serving as an ideal reference on plant speed breeding technologies, this book is for graduate students, teachers, researchers, and experts in the fields of plant sciences and plant breeding as well as agronomy and agriculture.
Table of Contents:
1. Technological development and prospects of crop speed breeding
Marcelo Picanço de Farias, Charles Hobi Zimmer, João Kafer, Mayla Daiane Correa Molinari, Fabricio Barbosa Monteiro Arraes, Renata Fuganti-Pagliarini, Isabela Yamauchi Torres, Samantha Vieira Abbad, Liliane Mertz-Henning, Alexandre Nepomuceno, Hugo Molinari
2. Speed breeding in the era of high throughput OMICS: recent developments and future outlook
Furqan Tayyab, Momna Mehmood, Aqsa Parvaiz, Ghulam Mustafa, Muhammad Sarwar Khan, Faiz Ahmad Joyia
3. Accelerate Crop Breeding Utilizing Modern Genomics and Phenomics Tools
Amooru Harika, Sivapragasam Ezhumalai, Biswabiplab Singh, Elangovan Allimuthu, Sukumar Taria, Dhandapani Raju, Sudhir Kumar, Mahesh Kumar, Madhurima Das and Viswanathan Chinnusamy
4. Implementation of Novel Genomic and Biotechnological Interventions for Accelerated Breeding of Crops
Muhammad Ramzan Khan, Nazia Rehman, Safeena Inam, Muhammad Kashif Naeem, Amna Muhammad, Muhammad Uzair, Aamir Riaz, Obaid Ur Rehman, Fara Muqaddas, Maryam Murtaza, Bilal Saleem, Muhammad Aqeel, Muhammad Zahid
5. Recent Advances in Plant Phenomics and Speed Breeding for Climate-smart Agriculture
Rubab Zahra Naqvi, Muhammad Farooq, Rida Zahid, Ifrah Imran, Muhammad Arslan Mahmood, Muhammad Jawad Akbar Awan, Shahid Mansoor, Imran Amin, Muhammad Asif
6. Genome editing technologies for accelerating crop improvement: An updated overview
Anil Namdev Kale, Raj Kumar, Rushikesh Sanjay Mane, Sagar Krushnaji Rangari, Praful Mukund Damdar, Zeba Quaiyum, Karma L. Bhutia, Akbar Hossain
7. The CRISPR/Cas system for plant speed breeding: Advances and prospects
Muhammad Jawad Akbar Awan, Muhammad Ismail Buzdar, Asma Zia, Aiman Raza, Rubab Zahra Naqvi, Imran Amin, and Shahid Mansoor
8. Genomic Selection Tools for Plant Speed Breeding
Sumi Sarkar, Marium Khatun, F. M. Era, A. K. M. Aminul Islam
9. Network of low-cost RGB-Depth cameras and mini-computers for high-throughput monitoring of plant stress response
CORDIER Mathis, RASTI Pejman, TORRES Cindy, ROUSSEAU David
10. Speed Breeding and High-Throughout Phenotypic Platforms to Accelerate Improvements in Cereal Crops
Indra Rautela, Sonika Kalia1, Megha Katoch, Shanvi Nautiyal, Natasha Charaya, Monika Kalia, Himanshu Sharma, Vinay Sharma
11. Proteomics: Aims at Stress Mitigation in Soybean under Abiotic Stress
Farhat Yasmeen, Rizwana Parveen, and Setsuko Komatsu
12. Genome editing systems for speed breeding of tomato (Solanum lycopersicon L.)
Madhusmita Barik, Jatindra Nath Mohanty, Animesh Pattnaik, Rukmini Mishra, Raj Kumar Joshi
13. Speed germplasm generation and precision-designed breeding in tomato based on the CRISPR/Cas9 system
Jiao Wang, Shuting Ding, Kai Shi
14. Speed breeding in fruit trees: Current achievements and future perspectives
Vadim Lebedev
15. Molecular, morpho-functional and agronomic phenotyping tools for grapevine selection and breeding
J. Miguel Costa, Luísa Carvalho, Rui Figueira, Hiroyuki Shimono, J.Marques da Silva
16. Rice Submergence Tolerance: Emerging Molecular Breeding Strategies in the Post-genomic Era
Ashish Gautam, Anamika Thakur, Charupriya Chauhan, Vinay Sharma, Karthick Babu Sivakumar, Rakesh Kumar, Sanjay Kumar Chetia
17. Speed breeding in vegetable crops: Implications and challenges
Ruma Devi, Shivani Chauhan
18. Strategies for speed breeding in crops to accelerate plant improvement
Naglaa A. Abdallah, Aladdin Hamwieh, Khaled Radwan, Michael Baum
About the Author :
Jen-Tsung Chen is a professor of cell biology at the National University of Kaohsiung in Taiwan. He also teaches genomics, proteomics, plant physiology, and plant biotechnology. Dr. Chen’s research interests include bioactive compounds, chromatography techniques, plant molecular biology, plant biotechnology, bioinformatics, and systems pharmacology. He is an active editor of academic books and journals to advance the exploration of multidisciplinary knowledge involving plant physiology, plant biotechnology, nanotechnology, ethnopharmacology, and systems biology. He serves as an editorial board member in reputed journals, including Plant Methods, GM Crops & Food, Plant Nano Biology, Biomolecules, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, and a guest editor in Frontiers in Plant Science, Frontiers in Pharmacology, Journal of Fungi, and Current Pharmaceutical Design. Dr. Chen published books in collaboration with Springer Nature, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group, and In-TechOpen and he is handling book projects for some more international publishers on diverse topics such as drug discovery, herbal medicine, medicinal biotechnology, nanotechnology, bioengineering, plant functional genomics, plant speed breeding, and CRISPR-based plant genome editing.
