1 Breeding Major Oilseed Crops: Prospects and Future Research Needs
2 Accelerating Soybean Improvement Through Genomics-Assisted Breeding
3 Genetic Enhancement of Groundnut: Current Status and Future Prospects
4 Recent Advances in Genetics, Genomics and Breeding for Nutritional Quality in Groundnut
5 Accelerated Breeding for Brassica Crops
6 Achieving Genetic Gain for Yield, Quality and Stress Resistance in Oilseed Brassicas through Accelerated
7 Genomic-Assisted Breeding for Enhanced Harvest-Able (Pod) and Consumable (Seed) Product, Yield Productivity in Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.)
8 Genomics-Assisted Breeding for Resistance to Leaf Spots and Rust Diseases in Peanut
9 Safflower Improvement: Conventional Breeding and Biotechnological Approach
10 Enhancing Genetic Gain in Coconut: Conventional, Molecular and Genomics-Based Breeding Approaches
11 Biotechnological Approaches for Genetic Improvement of Castor Bean (Ricinus communis L.)
12 Genetic and Molecular Technologies for Achieving High Productivity and Improved Quality in Sunflower
13 Genomic Cross Prediction for Linseed Improvement
14 Biotechnological Interventions for Improving Cottonseed Oil Attributes
15 Advances in Classical and Molecular Breeding in Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.)
About the Author: Dr. Satbir Singh Gosal is a former Director at the School of Agricultural Biotechnology, and former Director of Research at Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India. He was an Honorary Member of the Board of Assessors (Australian Research Council, Canberra), Biotechnology Career Fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation, USA, and President of the Punjab Academy of Sciences. He has published more than 200 research papers in refereed journals and 35 book chapters. He has co-authored one textbook and co-edited 6 Books with Springer. Dr. Shabir Hussain Wani Assistant Professor (Senior Scale) cum Scientist, Genetics and Plant Breeding at Mountain Research Centre for Field Crops, Khudwani, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Srinagar J&K, India. He received Ph.D. degree in plant breeding and genetics on transgenic rice for abiotic stress tolerance from the Punjab Agricultural University Ludhiana, India. He then joined the Krishi Vigyan Kendra (Farm Science Centre) as program coordinator (i/c) at Senapati, Manipur, India. He teaches courses related to plant breeding, seed science and technology, and stress breeding and has published more than 200 papers/chapters in journals and books of international and national repute. He served as guest editor and reviews editor for journal Frontier in Plant Science (2015-2018). He has also edited 20 books on current topics in crop improvement for abiotic stress tolerance published by Springer Nature. His Ph.D. research fetched first prize in the North Zone Competition, at national level, in India during 2009. He also served as visiting Scientist at Department of Plant Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, USA under the UGC Raman Post Doctoral Fellowship programme during 2016-2017. He was elected as Fellow of Linnean Society of London 2017. Currently, he is in charge of Wheat improvement programme at MRCFC Khudwani SKAUST Kashmir under the ICAR-All India Coordinated Improvement Project on Wheat and Barley.
