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1 Vignettes of the History of Genetics  1
Section I: Quantitative Genetics: Plant Breeding, Bioinformatics,
Genome Editing and G×E Interaction 17
2 Food and Health: The Role of Plant Breeding 19
3 The Importance of Plant Pan-genomes in Breeding 27
4 Genome Editing Technologies for Crop Improvement 33
5 Epigenome Editing in Crop Improvement 44
6 Bioinformatics and Plant Breeding 71
7 Bioinformatics Approaches for Pathway Reconstruction in
Orphan Crops – A New Paradigm 86
8 Advances in QTL Mapping and Cloning 124
9 Genotype–Environment Interaction and Stability Analyses: An Update 140
10 Biplot Analysis of Multi-environment Trial Data 162
11 Design and Analysis of Multi-year Field Trials for Annual Crops 178
12 Advances in the Definition of Adaptation Strategies and Yield-stability
Targets in Plant Breeding 194
Section II: Intersection of Breeding, Genetics and Genomics: Crop Examples 211
13 Prediction with Big Data in the Genomic and High-throughput
Phenotyping Era: A Case Study with Wheat Data 213
14 Quantitative Genetics in Improving Root and Tuber Crops 227
15 Genomic Selection in Rice: Empirical Results and Implications for Breeding 243
16 Novel Breeding Approaches for Developing Climate-resilient Rice 259
17 Quantitative Genetics, Molecular Techniques and Agronomic
Performance of Provitamin A Maize in Sub-Saharan Africa 276
18 Developments in Genomics Relative to Abiotic Stress-tolerance
Breeding in Maize During the Past Decade 325
19 Exploiting Alien Genetic Variation for Germplasm Enhancement
in Brassica Oilseeds 338
20 Biofortified Pearl Millet Cultivars Offer Potential Solution to Tackle
Malnutrition in India 385
Index 397

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