Chapter title |
Enabling Molecular Technologies for Trait Improvement in Wheat
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Chapter number | 1 |
Book title |
Wheat Biotechnology
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Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, January 2017
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4939-7337-8_1 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-7335-4, 978-1-4939-7337-8
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Authors |
Prem L. Bhalla, Akanksha Sharma, Mohan B. Singh, Bhalla, Prem L., Sharma, Akanksha, Singh, Mohan B. |
Abstract |
Wheat is the major staple food crop and a source of calories for humans worldwide. A steady increase in the wheat production is essential to meet the demands of an ever-increasing global population and to achieve food security. The large size and structurally intricate genome of polyploid wheat had hindered the genomic analysis. However, with the advent of new genomic technologies such as next generation sequencing has led to genome drafts for bread wheat and its progenitors and has paved the way to design new strategies for crop improvement. Here we provide an overview of the advancements made in wheat genomics together with the available "omics approaches" and bioinformatics resources developed for wheat research. Advances in genomic, transcriptomic, and metabolomic technologies are highlighted as options to circumvent existing bottlenecks in the phenotypic and genomic selection and gene transfer. The contemporary reverse genetics approaches, including the novel genome editing techniques to inform targeted manipulation of a single/multiple genes and strategies for generating marker-free transgenic wheat plants, emphasize potential to revolutionize wheat improvement shortly. |
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