Rajeev Varshney is a Principal Scientist for the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in India, as well as a Theme Leader for the CGIAR Generation >Challenge Program in Mexico. Dr. Varshney has published hundreds of research articles and co-edited five previous works on genomics and crop improvement.?Dr. Varshney is also an adjunct Professor at the University of Western Australia. Roberto Tuberosa is a professor at the University of Bologna, Italy, where he teaches courses on plant genetic resources and biotechnology, biotechnology applied to plant breeding, and agricultural genetics. Dr. Tuberosa is also active in the cereal crop research community and has published extensively on topics related to barley, maize and wheat, and he serves on the editorial boards for Plant Breeding, Plant Biotechnology Journal and Plant Genetic Resources characterization andutilization.

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• Translational Genomics for Crop Breeding: Volume 1 - Biotic StressForeword viiPreface ixChapter 1 Translational Genomics in Crop Breeding for Biotic Stress Resistance: An Introduction 1Rajeev K. Varshney and Roberto TuberosaChapter 2 Bacterial Blight Resistance in Rice 11Yanjun Kou and Shiping WangChapter 3 The Genetic Basis of Disease Resistance in Maize 31Tiffany Jamann, Rebecca Nelson, and Peter Balint-KurtiChapter 4 Genomics-Assisted Breeding for Fusarium Head Blight Resistance in Wheat 45Hermann Buerstmayr, Maria Buerstmayr, Wolfgang Schweiger, and Barbara SteinerChapter 5 Virus Resistance in Barley 63Frank Ordon and Dragan PerovicChapter 6 Molecular Breeding for Striga Resistance in Sorghum 77Santosh P. Deshpande, Abdalla Mohamed, and Charles Thomas Hash, Jr.Chapter 7 Nematode Resistance in Soybean 95Tri D. Vuong, Yongqing Jiao, J. Grover Shannon, and Henry T. NguyenChapter 8 Marker-Assisted Selection for Biotic Stress Resistance in Peanut 125Mark D. Burow, Soraya C. M. Leal-Bertioli, Charles E. Simpson, Peggy Ozias-Akins, Ye Chu, Nicholas N. Denwar, Jennifer Chagoya, James L. Starr, M´arcio C. Moretzsohn, Manish K. Pandey, Rajeev K.Varshney, C. Corley Holbrook, and David J. BertioliChapter 9 Organization of Genes Conferring Resistance to Anthracnose in Common Bean 151Juan Jose Ferreira, Ana Campa, and James D. KellyChapter 10 Enabling Tools for Modern Breeding of Cowpea for Biotic Stress Resistance 183Bao-Lam Huynh, Jeffrey D. Ehlers, Timothy J. Close, Ndiaga Cisse, Issa Drabo, Ousmane Boukar, Mitchell R. Lucas, Steve Wanamaker, Marti Pottorff, and Philip A. RobertsChapter 11 Disease Resistance in Chickpea 201Teresa Mill´an, Eva Madrid, Muhammad Imtiaz, Mohamed Kharrat, and Weidong ChenChapter 12 Resistance to Late Blight in Potato 221Jadwiga Sliwka and Ewa Zimnoch-GuzowskaChapter 13 Late Blight of Tomato 241Marcin Nowicki, Elÿzbieta U. Kozik, and Majid R. FooladChapter 14 Marker-Assisted Selection for Disease Resistance in Lettuce 267I. SimkoChapter 15 Marker-Assisted Breeding for Cassava Mosaic Disease Resistance 291E. Okogbenin, I. Moreno, J. Tomkins, C.M. Fauquet, G. Mkamilo, and M. FregeneChapter 16 Genetics and Gene Mapping of Disease Resistance in Brassica 327Genyi Li and Peter B.E. McVettyAppendix I – Contributors 345Appendix II – Reviewers 351Index 353Color plate section can be found between pages 182 and 183.Translational Genomics for Crop Breeding: Volume 2 - Improvement for Abiotic Stress, Quality and Yield ImprovementForeword viiPreface ixChapter 1 Translational Genomics for Crop Breeding: Abiotic Stress Tolerance, Yield, and Quality, An Introduction 1Rajeev K. Varshney and Roberto TuberosaChapter 2 Applying Genomics Tools for Breeding Submergence Tolerance in Rice 9Endang M. Septiningsih, Bertrand C. Y. Collard, Sigrid Heuer, Julia Bailey-Serres, Abdelbagi M. Ismail, and David J. MackillChapter 3 Genomics Applications to Salinity Tolerance Breeding in Rice 31J. Damien Platten, Michael J. Thomson, and Abdelbagi M. IsmailChapter 4 Marker-Assisted Introgression of Major QTLs for Grain Yield Under Drought in Rice 47Arvind Kumar, Shalabh Dixit, and Amelia HenryChapter 5 Molecular Breeding for Phosphorus-efficient Rice 65Sigrid Heuer, J.H. Chin, R. Gamuyao, S.M. Haefele, and M. WissuwaChapter 6 Aluminum Tolerance in Sorghum and Maize 83Jurandir V. Magalhaes, Lyza G. Maron, Miguel A. Pi˜neros, Claudia T. Guimar˜aes, and Leon V. KochianChapter 7 Freezing Tolerance in the Triticeae 99Galiba Gabor, Eric J. Stockinger, Enrico Francia, Justyna Milc, Gabor Kocsy, and Nicola PecchioniChapter 8 Molecular Breeding for Stay-Green: Progress and Challenges in Sorghum 125Vincent Vadez, Santosh Deshpande, Jana Kholova, Punna Ramu, and C. Tom HashChapter 9 Genetic Improvement of Grain Quality in Japonica Rice 143Kiyosumi Hori and Masahiro YanoChapter 10 Biofortified Maize – A Genetic Avenue for Nutritional Security 161Raman Babu, Natalia Palacios, and BM PrasannaChapter 11 Marker-Assisted Backcrossing Selection for High O/L Ratio in Cultivated Peanut 177Padmalatha Koilkonda, Chikara Kuwata, Masanobu Fukami, Kenta Shirasawa, Koh Aoki, Satoshi Tabata, Makoto Hasegawa, Hiroyuki Kiyoshima, Shigeru Suzuki, Shigemi Sasamoto, Atsushi Kurabayashi, Hisano Tsuruoka, Tsuyuko Wada, and Sachiko IsobeChapter 12 Genomics-Assisted Breeding for Tomato Fruit Quality in the Next-Generation Omics Age 193Matthew P. Kinkade and Majid R. FooladChapter 13 Improvement of Yield per se in Sugarcane 211M. Gouy, S. Nibouche, J.Y. Hoarau, and L. CostetAppendix I – Contributors 239Appendix II – Reviewers 243Index 245Color plate section can be found between pages 82 and 83.

Rajeev Varshney is a Principal Scientist for the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in India, as well as a Theme Leader for the CGIAR Generation >Challenge Program in Mexico. Dr. Varshney has published hundreds of research articles and co-edited five previous works on genomics and crop improvement.?Dr. Varshney is also an adjunct Professor at the University of Western Australia. Roberto Tuberosa is a professor at the University of Bologna, Italy, where he teaches courses on plant genetic resources and biotechnology, biotechnology applied to plant breeding, and agricultural genetics. Dr. Tuberosa is also active in the cereal crop research community and has published extensively on topics related to barley, maize and wheat, and he serves on the editorial boards for Plant Breeding, Plant Biotechnology Journal and Plant Genetic Resources characterization andutilization.

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• Translational Genomics for Crop Breeding: Volume 1 - Biotic StressForeword viiPreface ixChapter 1 Translational Genomics in Crop Breeding for Biotic Stress Resistance: An Introduction 1Rajeev K. Varshney and Roberto TuberosaChapter 2 Bacterial Blight Resistance in Rice 11Yanjun Kou and Shiping WangChapter 3 The Genetic Basis of Disease Resistance in Maize 31Tiffany Jamann, Rebecca Nelson, and Peter Balint-KurtiChapter 4 Genomics-Assisted Breeding for Fusarium Head Blight Resistance in Wheat 45Hermann Buerstmayr, Maria Buerstmayr, Wolfgang Schweiger, and Barbara SteinerChapter 5 Virus Resistance in Barley 63Frank Ordon and Dragan PerovicChapter 6 Molecular Breeding for Striga Resistance in Sorghum 77Santosh P. Deshpande, Abdalla Mohamed, and Charles Thomas Hash, Jr.Chapter 7 Nematode Resistance in Soybean 95Tri D. Vuong, Yongqing Jiao, J. Grover Shannon, and Henry T. NguyenChapter 8 Marker-Assisted Selection for Biotic Stress Resistance in Peanut 125Mark D. Burow, Soraya C. M. Leal-Bertioli, Charles E. Simpson, Peggy Ozias-Akins, Ye Chu, Nicholas N. Denwar, Jennifer Chagoya, James L. Starr, M´arcio C. Moretzsohn, Manish K. Pandey, Rajeev K.Varshney, C. Corley Holbrook, and David J. BertioliChapter 9 Organization of Genes Conferring Resistance to Anthracnose in Common Bean 151Juan Jose Ferreira, Ana Campa, and James D. KellyChapter 10 Enabling Tools for Modern Breeding of Cowpea for Biotic Stress Resistance 183Bao-Lam Huynh, Jeffrey D. Ehlers, Timothy J. Close, Ndiaga Cisse, Issa Drabo, Ousmane Boukar, Mitchell R. Lucas, Steve Wanamaker, Marti Pottorff, and Philip A. RobertsChapter 11 Disease Resistance in Chickpea 201Teresa Mill´an, Eva Madrid, Muhammad Imtiaz, Mohamed Kharrat, and Weidong ChenChapter 12 Resistance to Late Blight in Potato 221Jadwiga Sliwka and Ewa Zimnoch-GuzowskaChapter 13 Late Blight of Tomato 241Marcin Nowicki, Elÿzbieta U. Kozik, and Majid R. FooladChapter 14 Marker-Assisted Selection for Disease Resistance in Lettuce 267I. SimkoChapter 15 Marker-Assisted Breeding for Cassava Mosaic Disease Resistance 291E. Okogbenin, I. Moreno, J. Tomkins, C.M. Fauquet, G. Mkamilo, and M. FregeneChapter 16 Genetics and Gene Mapping of Disease Resistance in Brassica 327Genyi Li and Peter B.E. McVettyAppendix I – Contributors 345Appendix II – Reviewers 351Index 353Color plate section can be found between pages 182 and 183.Translational Genomics for Crop Breeding: Volume 2 - Improvement for Abiotic Stress, Quality and Yield ImprovementForeword viiPreface ixChapter 1 Translational Genomics for Crop Breeding: Abiotic Stress Tolerance, Yield, and Quality, An Introduction 1Rajeev K. Varshney and Roberto TuberosaChapter 2 Applying Genomics Tools for Breeding Submergence Tolerance in Rice 9Endang M. Septiningsih, Bertrand C. Y. Collard, Sigrid Heuer, Julia Bailey-Serres, Abdelbagi M. Ismail, and David J. MackillChapter 3 Genomics Applications to Salinity Tolerance Breeding in Rice 31J. Damien Platten, Michael J. Thomson, and Abdelbagi M. IsmailChapter 4 Marker-Assisted Introgression of Major QTLs for Grain Yield Under Drought in Rice 47Arvind Kumar, Shalabh Dixit, and Amelia HenryChapter 5 Molecular Breeding for Phosphorus-efficient Rice 65Sigrid Heuer, J.H. Chin, R. Gamuyao, S.M. Haefele, and M. WissuwaChapter 6 Aluminum Tolerance in Sorghum and Maize 83Jurandir V. Magalhaes, Lyza G. Maron, Miguel A. Pi˜neros, Claudia T. Guimar˜aes, and Leon V. KochianChapter 7 Freezing Tolerance in the Triticeae 99Galiba Gabor, Eric J. Stockinger, Enrico Francia, Justyna Milc, Gabor Kocsy, and Nicola PecchioniChapter 8 Molecular Breeding for Stay-Green: Progress and Challenges in Sorghum 125Vincent Vadez, Santosh Deshpande, Jana Kholova, Punna Ramu, and C. Tom HashChapter 9 Genetic Improvement of Grain Quality in Japonica Rice 143Kiyosumi Hori and Masahiro YanoChapter 10 Biofortified Maize – A Genetic Avenue for Nutritional Security 161Raman Babu, Natalia Palacios, and BM PrasannaChapter 11 Marker-Assisted Backcrossing Selection for High O/L Ratio in Cultivated Peanut 177Padmalatha Koilkonda, Chikara Kuwata, Masanobu Fukami, Kenta Shirasawa, Koh Aoki, Satoshi Tabata, Makoto Hasegawa, Hiroyuki Kiyoshima, Shigeru Suzuki, Shigemi Sasamoto, Atsushi Kurabayashi, Hisano Tsuruoka, Tsuyuko Wada, and Sachiko IsobeChapter 12 Genomics-Assisted Breeding for Tomato Fruit Quality in the Next-Generation Omics Age 193Matthew P. Kinkade and Majid R. FooladChapter 13 Improvement of Yield per se in Sugarcane 211M. Gouy, S. Nibouche, J.Y. Hoarau, and L. CostetAppendix I – Contributors 239Appendix II – Reviewers 243Index 245Color plate section can be found between pages 82 and 83.

Rajeev Varshney is a Principal Scientist for the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in India, as well as a Theme Leader for the CGIAR Generation >Challenge Program in Mexico. Dr. Varshney has published hundreds of research articles and co-edited five previous works on genomics and crop improvement.?Dr. Varshney is also an adjunct Professor at the University of Western Australia. Roberto Tuberosa is a professor at the University of Bologna, Italy, where he teaches courses on plant genetic resources and biotechnology, biotechnology applied to plant breeding, and agricultural genetics. Dr. Tuberosa is also active in the cereal crop research community and has published extensively on topics related to barley, maize and wheat, and he serves on the editorial boards for Plant Breeding, Plant Biotechnology Journal and Plant Genetic Resources characterization andutilization.

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• Translational Genomics for Crop Breeding: Volume 1 - Biotic StressForeword viiPreface ixChapter 1 Translational Genomics in Crop Breeding for Biotic Stress Resistance: An Introduction 1Rajeev K. Varshney and Roberto TuberosaChapter 2 Bacterial Blight Resistance in Rice 11Yanjun Kou and Shiping WangChapter 3 The Genetic Basis of Disease Resistance in Maize 31Tiffany Jamann, Rebecca Nelson, and Peter Balint-KurtiChapter 4 Genomics-Assisted Breeding for Fusarium Head Blight Resistance in Wheat 45Hermann Buerstmayr, Maria Buerstmayr, Wolfgang Schweiger, and Barbara SteinerChapter 5 Virus Resistance in Barley 63Frank Ordon and Dragan PerovicChapter 6 Molecular Breeding for Striga Resistance in Sorghum 77Santosh P. Deshpande, Abdalla Mohamed, and Charles Thomas Hash, Jr.Chapter 7 Nematode Resistance in Soybean 95Tri D. Vuong, Yongqing Jiao, J. Grover Shannon, and Henry T. NguyenChapter 8 Marker-Assisted Selection for Biotic Stress Resistance in Peanut 125Mark D. Burow, Soraya C. M. Leal-Bertioli, Charles E. Simpson, Peggy Ozias-Akins, Ye Chu, Nicholas N. Denwar, Jennifer Chagoya, James L. Starr, M´arcio C. Moretzsohn, Manish K. Pandey, Rajeev K.Varshney, C. Corley Holbrook, and David J. BertioliChapter 9 Organization of Genes Conferring Resistance to Anthracnose in Common Bean 151Juan Jose Ferreira, Ana Campa, and James D. KellyChapter 10 Enabling Tools for Modern Breeding of Cowpea for Biotic Stress Resistance 183Bao-Lam Huynh, Jeffrey D. Ehlers, Timothy J. Close, Ndiaga Cisse, Issa Drabo, Ousmane Boukar, Mitchell R. Lucas, Steve Wanamaker, Marti Pottorff, and Philip A. RobertsChapter 11 Disease Resistance in Chickpea 201Teresa Mill´an, Eva Madrid, Muhammad Imtiaz, Mohamed Kharrat, and Weidong ChenChapter 12 Resistance to Late Blight in Potato 221Jadwiga Sliwka and Ewa Zimnoch-GuzowskaChapter 13 Late Blight of Tomato 241Marcin Nowicki, Elÿzbieta U. Kozik, and Majid R. FooladChapter 14 Marker-Assisted Selection for Disease Resistance in Lettuce 267I. SimkoChapter 15 Marker-Assisted Breeding for Cassava Mosaic Disease Resistance 291E. Okogbenin, I. Moreno, J. Tomkins, C.M. Fauquet, G. Mkamilo, and M. FregeneChapter 16 Genetics and Gene Mapping of Disease Resistance in Brassica 327Genyi Li and Peter B.E. McVettyAppendix I – Contributors 345Appendix II – Reviewers 351Index 353Color plate section can be found between pages 182 and 183.Translational Genomics for Crop Breeding: Volume 2 - Improvement for Abiotic Stress, Quality and Yield ImprovementForeword viiPreface ixChapter 1 Translational Genomics for Crop Breeding: Abiotic Stress Tolerance, Yield, and Quality, An Introduction 1Rajeev K. Varshney and Roberto TuberosaChapter 2 Applying Genomics Tools for Breeding Submergence Tolerance in Rice 9Endang M. Septiningsih, Bertrand C. Y. Collard, Sigrid Heuer, Julia Bailey-Serres, Abdelbagi M. Ismail, and David J. MackillChapter 3 Genomics Applications to Salinity Tolerance Breeding in Rice 31J. Damien Platten, Michael J. Thomson, and Abdelbagi M. IsmailChapter 4 Marker-Assisted Introgression of Major QTLs for Grain Yield Under Drought in Rice 47Arvind Kumar, Shalabh Dixit, and Amelia HenryChapter 5 Molecular Breeding for Phosphorus-efficient Rice 65Sigrid Heuer, J.H. Chin, R. Gamuyao, S.M. Haefele, and M. WissuwaChapter 6 Aluminum Tolerance in Sorghum and Maize 83Jurandir V. Magalhaes, Lyza G. Maron, Miguel A. Pi˜neros, Claudia T. Guimar˜aes, and Leon V. KochianChapter 7 Freezing Tolerance in the Triticeae 99Galiba Gabor, Eric J. Stockinger, Enrico Francia, Justyna Milc, Gabor Kocsy, and Nicola PecchioniChapter 8 Molecular Breeding for Stay-Green: Progress and Challenges in Sorghum 125Vincent Vadez, Santosh Deshpande, Jana Kholova, Punna Ramu, and C. Tom HashChapter 9 Genetic Improvement of Grain Quality in Japonica Rice 143Kiyosumi Hori and Masahiro YanoChapter 10 Biofortified Maize – A Genetic Avenue for Nutritional Security 161Raman Babu, Natalia Palacios, and BM PrasannaChapter 11 Marker-Assisted Backcrossing Selection for High O/L Ratio in Cultivated Peanut 177Padmalatha Koilkonda, Chikara Kuwata, Masanobu Fukami, Kenta Shirasawa, Koh Aoki, Satoshi Tabata, Makoto Hasegawa, Hiroyuki Kiyoshima, Shigeru Suzuki, Shigemi Sasamoto, Atsushi Kurabayashi, Hisano Tsuruoka, Tsuyuko Wada, and Sachiko IsobeChapter 12 Genomics-Assisted Breeding for Tomato Fruit Quality in the Next-Generation Omics Age 193Matthew P. Kinkade and Majid R. FooladChapter 13 Improvement of Yield per se in Sugarcane 211M. Gouy, S. Nibouche, J.Y. Hoarau, and L. CostetAppendix I – Contributors 239Appendix II – Reviewers 243Index 245Color plate section can be found between pages 82 and 83.