Advanced Technologies for Crop Improvement and Agricultural Productivity

Contents: 1. Improvement of Vegetable Crops through Biotechnological Approaches/Ajay Kumar Verma, D. Singh, Satish Kackare and M. Singh. 2. Marker Assisted Selection and its Application in Breeding Designer Crops/Javeed A. Lone, Shabir H. Wani, M. Ashraf Bhat, Asif B. Shikari, Najeeb R. Sofi and Rayees A. Lone. 3. Nanotechnology in Crop and Nutrition Boost/Himakshi Bhati-Kushwaha and CP Malik. 4. Improvement through Induced Mutagenesis: Ornamental Crops/Dr. S. K. Datta. 5. Insect Resistant Transgenic Crops with Particular Reference to Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) Proteins/Tarakeswari, M. Sujatha. 6. Clonal Propagation of Conifers/J. A. Bhat, Syed Maqbool Geelani and Asif M. Iqbal. 7. Artificial Seed Technology for Storage and Exchange of Plant Genetic Resources/Saikat Gantait, Suprabuddha Kundu. 8. Molecular, Biotechnological and other Recent Approaches to Combat Abiotic Stresses in Field Crops/Sajad Hussain Dar and Shabir Hussain Wani. 9. Recent Advances in Breeding for Disease Resistance to Stripe Rust of Wheat/A. Sheikh, S. H. Wani and Z. A. Dar. 10. Bio-Fortification: Improving Nutritional Content of Food Crops for Overcoming Malnutrition/Gazala Hassan Khan, Asif B Shikari, Shabir H. Wani.