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 is Vol 6, subtitled Industrial and Food Crops, which consists of two parts. Included in Part I are 11 industrial plant species utilized as sources of raw materials for the production of industrial products including pulp and wood crops (acacia), fiber (cotton, jute and ramie), rubber (guayule and rubber tree), oil (jojoba and flax), biofuels and pharmaceutical (agave) and sugar source (sugarcane). Part II covers 7 food plants selected for their utilization in food industries for the production of chocolate (cacao), cooking oil (oil palm, safflower, sesame and sunflower) and natural flavors and aroma (saffron and vanilla). This volume is contributed by 60 internationally reputable scientists from 14 countries. Each chapter comprehensively reviews the modern literature on the subject and reflects the authors own experience.
Preface.- About the Editors.- Contributors.- Part I. Industrial Crops.-
1. Genetics and Breeding of Tropical Acacias for Forest Products: Acacia
mangium, A. auriculiformis and A. crassicarpa; Arif Nirsatmanto, Sri
Sunarti.-
2. Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) Breeding Strategies; Saeed Rauf
et al.-
3. CRISPR/Cas9: A New Genome Editing Tool to Accelerate Cotton
(Gossypium spp.) Breeding; Muhammad N. Sattar et al.-
4. Jute (Corchorus
spp.) Breeding; Liwu Zhang et al.-
5. Ramie (Boehmeria nivea L. Gaud) Genetic
Improvement; Pratik Satya et al.-
6. Genetic Improvement of Guayule
(Parthenium argentatum A. Gray): An Alternative Rubber Crop; Hussein
Abdel-Haleem et al.-
7. Biotechnological Advances in Rubber Tree (Hevea
brasiliensis Muell. Arg.) Breeding; Sankaran Sobha et al.-
8. Genetics and
Breeding of Jojoba [ Simmondsia chinensis (Link) Schneider]; Mohamed M.A.
Khairi.-
9. Flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) Genomics and Breeding; Frank M. You
et al.-
10. Breeding Strategies to Improve Production of Agave (Agave spp.);
Kelly M. Monja-Mio et al.-
11. Sugarcane (Saccharum spp.): Breeding and
Genomics; Shriram J. Mirajkar et al.- Part II. Food Crops.-
12. Cacao
(Theobroma cacao L.) Breeding; Frances Bekele, Wilbert Phillips-Mora.-
13.
Oil Palm (Elaeis spp.) Breeding in Malaysia; Fadila Ahmad Malike et al.-
14.
Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) Breeding; Pooran Golkar, Somayeh Karimi.-
15. Advances in Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) Breeding; Swapan K. Tripathy et
al.-
16. Breeding Strategies for Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) Genetic
Improvement; Saeed Rauf.-
17. Saffron (Crocus sativus L.) Breeding:
Opportunities and Challenges; Majid Shokrpour.-
18. Vanilla (Vanilla spp.)
Breeding; Alan H. Chambers.- Index.
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.
