Manjit Kang is a former Professor of Quantitative Genetics at Louisiana State University and current Vice Chancellor of Punjab Agricultural University P. M. Priyadarshan is a Plant Breeder at the Rubber Research Institute of India

“…comprised of informed and informative essays…offering state-of-the-art technical information…An impressive body of scholarship… should be considered a fundamental cornerstone acquisition for all…reference collections.”Midwest Book Review

• Foreword (Gurdev S. Khush). Preface (Manjit S. Kang and P.M. Priyadarshan).Part 1: General Topics.Chapter 1: Crop Breeding Methodologies: Classic and Modern (Manjit S.Kang, Prasanta K. Subudhi, Niranjan Baisakh, and P.M. Priyadarshan).Chapter 2: Genetic Enhancement of Polypoid Crops Using Tools of Classical Cytogenetics and Modern Biotechnology (Prem P. Jauhar).Chapter 3: Biofortification: Breeding Micronutrient-Dense Crops (Wolfgang H. Pfeiffer and Bonnie McClafferty).Chapter 4:Bioinformatics and Plant Genomics for Staple Crops Improvement (David Edwards).Part 2: Cereals and Oil/Protein Crops.Chapter 5: Breeding Spring Bread Wheat for Irrigated and Rainfed Production Systems of the Developing World (Ravi P. Singh and Richard Trethowan).Chapter 6: Rice Breeding for Sustainable Production (Sant S. Virmani and M. Ilyas-Ahmed).Chapter 7: Barley Breeding for Sustainable Production (Salvatore Ceccarelli, Stefania Grando, Flavio Capettini, and Michael Baum).Chapter 8: Corn Breeding in the Twenty-first Century (G. Richard Johnson).Chapter 9: Soybean Breeding Achievements and Challenges (Silvia R. Cianzio).Part 3: Carbohydrate Suppliers: Rood Crops and Banana.Chapter 10: Breeding Potato as a Major Staple Crop (John E. Bradshaw).Chapter 11: Breeding of Sweetpotato (S.L. Tan, M. Nakatani, and K. Komaki).Chapter 12: Cassava Genetic Improvement (Hernan Ceballos, Martin Fregene, Juan Carlos Perez, Nelson Morante, and Fernando Calle).Chapter 13: Banana Breeding (Michael Pillay and Leena Tripathi).Index