Overview
- Covers the importance of molecular markers in crop plant research and their application
- Provides insight into the expanding role of molecular markers
- Highlights crop-specific role of molecular markers in improving productivity and resilience
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This edited book covers the applications of molecular markers in the genetic improvement of crop plants. Recent advances in molecular marker techniques such as the development of high-throughput genotyping platforms, marker-assisted selection, and non-coding RNA-based markers have been discussed. Essential information is provided on functional markers, genotype-by-sequencing, and association mapping methodologies that can facilitate accelerated crop breeding programs for increased yield, high nutritional quality, and tolerance to a variety of abiotic and biotic stresses. This volume presents basic information on molecular marker techniques from marker location up to gene cloning. The book includes a description of technical approaches in genome analysis such as comparison of marker systems, positional cloning, and array techniques.
This book is of interest to teachers, researchers, and plant breeders. The book also serves as additional reading material for undergraduate and graduate students of agriculture, horticulture, and forestry.
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr. Nitish Kumar is Senior Assistant Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, Central University of South Bihar, Gaya, Bihar, India, for the last 12 years. Dr. Kumar completed his doctoral research at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research–Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India. He has a wide area of research experience in the field of crop improvement using plant biotechnology techniques. He has published more than 70 research articles in leading international and national journals, more than 20 book chapters, and 7 books with Springer and Taylor and Francis. Dr. Kumar is a recipient of the Young Scientist Award from the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) in 2014. He has received many awards/fellowships/projects from various prestigious Indian government organizations like CSIR, DBT, ICAR, SERB-DST, and BRNS-BARC, among others. He is a reviewer for various international journals and serves as an associate editor ofthe journal Gene (Elsevier).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Molecular Marker Techniques
Book Subtitle: A Potential Approach of Crop Improvement
Editors: Nitish Kumar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-1612-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-1611-5Published: 30 June 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-1614-6Due: 31 July 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-1612-2Published: 29 June 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 368
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Agriculture, Genetics and Genomics, Plant Sciences