Gupta S.K. (Ed.) Biology and Breeding of Crucifers

CRC Press, 2009. — 394 p.
ISBN: 978‑1‑4200‑8608‑9.Despite recent advances made in rapeseed-mustard breeding, the need and opportunities to increase its production, productivity, oil content and quality, and protein yield are as great today as they have ever been. The alien variations available in wild crucifers have been utilized enormously by the technique of chromosome and genetic engineering to develop noble varieties. Realizing the importance of crucifer crops in Europe and the rest of the countries of the world, there is an urgent need to search for new gene pools with special reference to wild species and to update the knowledge of the recent technologies developed thus far in enhancing rapeseed-mustard production at the global level. At present, no single publication available deals exclusively with crucifers, with the primary emphasis on wild species.
This book includes 18 chapters that have been well prepared by leading Brassica scientists around the world with extensive experience, and their contributions are well recognized worldwide.Molecular Systematics and Evolution (Marcus A. Koch and Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz).
Phylogeny of Brassica and Wild Relatives (Suzanne I. Warwick and Jocelyn C. Hall).
Biology and Ecology of Wild Crucifers (Aditya Pratap and S.K. Gupta).
Floral Variation in the Subtribe Brassicinae with Special Reference to Pollination Strategies and Pollen-Ovule Ratios (Yoshihito Takahata).
Breeding Methods (S.K. Gupta and Aditya Pratap).
Self-Incompatibility (Hiroyasu Kitashiba and Takeshi Nishio).
Wild Germplasm and Male Sterility (Shyam Prakash, S.R. Bhat, and Ting-Dong Fu).
Plant–Insect Interaction (D.P. Abrol).
Seed Dormancy and Viability (M.S. Naeem, D. Liu, R. Raziuddin, G.L. Wan, G.X. Tang, and W.J. Zhou).
Comparative Cytogenetics of Wild Crucifers (Brassicaceae) (Martin A. Lysak).
Distant Hybridization (Yukio Kaneko, Sang Woo Bang, and Yasuo Matsuzawa).
Phytoalexins (M. Soledade C. Pedras and Qingan Zheng).
Introgression of Genes from Wild Crucifers (Hu Qiong, Li Yunchang, and Mei Desheng).
Biotechnology (Vinitha Cardoza and C. Neal Stewart, Jr.).
Microsporogenesis and Haploidy Breeding (Aditya Pratap, S.K. Gupta, and Y. Takahata).
Genetic Improvement in Vegetable Crucifers (Pritam Kalia).
Industrial Products (Carla D. Zelmer and Peter B.E. McVetty).
Collection, Preservation, and Distribution of Wild Genetic Resources (César Gómez-Campo).