Manjit Kang & P. M. Priyadarshan 
Breeding Major Food Staples 

As the world’s population increases the need to produce greater quantities of major staple crops such as wheat, rice, maize, potato, cassava, soybean, sweet potato, barley, and banana in order to sufficiently feed the people of the world continues to grow. Breeding Major Food Staples covers improving yields and quality of these crops through breeding and the use of molecular biology tools such as gene transfer, genome mapping, biofortification, and bioinformatics. This book will be an important reference for anyone working in crop breeding.

Table of Content

Foreword (Gurdev S. Khush).

Preface (Manjit S. Kang and P.M. Priyadarshan).

Part 1: General Topics.

Chapter 1: Crop Breeding Methodologies: Classic and Modern
(Manjit S.Kang, Prasanta K. Subudhi, Niranjan Baisakh, and P.M.
Priyadarshan).

Chapter 2: Genetic Enhancement of Polypoid Crops Using Tools of
Classical Cytogenetics and Modern Biotechnology (Prem P.
Jauhar).

Chapter 3: Biofortification: Breeding Micronutrient-Dense Crops
(Wolfgang H. Pfeiffer and Bonnie Mc Clafferty).

Chapter 4:Bioinformatics and Plant Genomics for Staple Crops
Improvement (David Edwards).

Part 2: Cereals and Oil/Protein Crops.

Chapter 5: Breeding Spring Bread Wheat for Irrigated and Rainfed
Production Systems of the Developing World (Ravi P. Singh and
Richard Trethowan).

Chapter 6: Rice Breeding for Sustainable Production (Sant S.
Virmani and M. Ilyas-Ahmed).

Chapter 7: Barley Breeding for Sustainable Production (Salvatore
Ceccarelli, Stefania Grando, Flavio Capettini, and Michael
Baum).

Chapter 8: Corn Breeding in the Twenty-first Century (G. Richard
Johnson).

Chapter 9: Soybean Breeding Achievements and Challenges (Silvia
R. Cianzio).

Part 3: Carbohydrate Suppliers: Rood Crops and
Banana.

Chapter 10: Breeding Potato as a Major Staple Crop (John E.
Bradshaw).

Chapter 11: Breeding of Sweetpotato (S.L. Tan, M. Nakatani, and
K. Komaki).

Chapter 12: Cassava Genetic Improvement (Hernan Ceballos, Martin
Fregene, Juan Carlos Perez, Nelson Morante, and Fernando
Calle).

Chapter 13: Banana Breeding (Michael Pillay and Leena
Tripathi).

Index

About the author

Manjit Kang is a former Professor of Quantitative Genetics
at Louisiana State University and current Vice Chancellor of Punjab
Agricultural University

P. M. Priyadarshan is a Plant Breeder at the Rubber
Research Institute of India