Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies: Vegetable Crops: Volume 9: Fruits and Young Shoots

by Jameel M. Al-Khayri (Editor), S. Mohan Jain (Editor), Dennis V. Johnson (Editor)

Overview

This book examines the development of innovative modern methodologies towards augmenting conventional plant breeding, in individual crops, for the production of new crop varieties under the increasingly limiting environmental and cultivation factors to achieve sustainable agricultural production, enhanced food security, in addition to providing raw materials for innovative industrial products and pharmaceuticals.

This Volume 9, subtitled Vegetable Crops: Fruits and Young Shoots, consists of 12 chapters focusing on advances in breeding strategies using both traditional and modern approaches for the improvement of individual vegetable crops.

Chapters are arranged in 2 parts according to the edible vegetable parts. Part I: Fruits - Bell Pepper (Capsicum annuum L. var. grossum Sendt.), Chili pepper (Capsicum frutescens L.), Bitter gourd (Momordica charantia L.), Bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria (Molina) Standl.), Eggplant (Solanum spp.), Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus L.), Plantain (Musa paradisiaca L.), Sweet gourd (Cucurbita moschata Duch. ex Poir.), Melon (Cucumis melo L. Groups Dudaim and Flexuosus), Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) and Zucchini (Cucurbita pepo L.) and Part II: Young shoots - Asparagus (Asparagus officinalis L.). The chapters were contributed by 43 internationally reputable scientists from 11 countries. Each chapter comprehensively reviews the modern literature on the subject and reflects the authors own experience.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030669607
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	08/26/2021
Edition description:	1st ed. 2021
Pages:	476
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Prof. Jameel M. Al-Khayri is a Professor of plant biotechnology affiliated with the Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia. He received B.S. in Biology in 1984 from the University of Toledo, M.S. in Agronomy in 1988, and Ph.D. in Plant Science in 1991 from the University of Arkansas.

Prof. Shri Mohan Jain is a Consultant and Plant Biotechnologist, Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; received M. Phil, 1973 and Ph.D., 1978, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.

Prof. Dennis V. Johnson is a Consultant and Former University Professor. He is a graduate of the University of California Los Angeles where he completed his B.A. (1966), M.A. (1970) and Ph.D. (1972) degrees in geography, with specialization in agriculture and biogeography.

Table of Contents

Preface.- Part I: Fruits.- Chapter 1. Advances in Breeding Strategies of Bell Pepper (Capsicum annuum L. var. grossum Sendt.) (Jyoti Devi, Vidya Sagar, Vineet Kaswan, J.K. Ranjan, Rajesh Kumar,Gyan P. Mishra,R.K. Dubey,and Ravindra K. Verma).- Chapter 2. Genetics, Genomics and Breeding of Chili Pepper (Capsicum frutescens L.) and other Capsicum Species (Vanadan Jaiswal, Vijay Gahlaut, Nitin Kumar, and Nirala Ramchiary).- Chapter 3. Recent Advances in Breeding of Bitter Gourd (Momordica charantia L.) (Pulipati Gangadhara Rao).- Chapter 4. Breeding of Bottle Gourd (Lagenaria siceraria (Molina) Standl.) (A. K. M. Aminul Islam, Sumi Sarkar, and Farzana M. Era).- Chapter 5. Eggplant (Solanum melongena, S. aethiopicum and S. macrocarpon) Breeding (Mohamed Rakha, Jaime Prohens, Dalia Taher, Tien-hor Wu, and Svein Ø. Solberg).- Chapter 6. Breeding Strategies for Yield Gains in Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus L.) (Gyan P. Mishra, Tania Seth, Pradip Karmakar, Satish K. Sanwal, Vidya Sagar, Priti, Prabhakar M. Singh, and Bijendra Singh).- Chapter 7. Plantain (Musa paradisiaca L.) Genetic Improvement and Germplasm Management with Emphasis on Cross River State in Nigeria (Godwin Michael Ubi and Ebiamadon Andi Brisibe).- Chapter 8. Breeding of Sweet Gourd (Cucurbita moschata Duch. ex Poir.) (A. K. M. Aminul Islam, Sumi Sarkar, Kamrun N. Ruma, Marium Khatun, Farzana M. Era and Mohammad S. Raihan).- Chapter 9. Breeding of Melon (Cucumis melo L. Groups Dudaim and Flexuosus) (Forouzandeh Soltani).- Chapter 10. Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) Breeding Strategies for Biotic and Abiotic Stresses (Adel Rezk, Mohammad Abhary and Abdullah Akhkha).- Chapter 11. Disease Resistance Breeding with Genomic Tools in Zucchini (Cucurbita pepo L.) (Giuseppe Andolfo, Ciro Gianmaria Amoroso, and Maria Raffaella Ercolano).- Part II: Young Shoots.- Chapter 12. Asparagus (Asparagus officinalis L.) Breeding (Roberto Moreno, Patricia Castro, Jose V. Die, and Juan Gil).