Plant Ecogenomics

Peerzada Arshid Shabir, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Botany in the Department of Higher Education, Jammu and Kashmir, India, specializing in plant reproductive ecology. He has published research articles and book chapters and has also presented his work at national and international conferences. His current research interests include the genomic bases of phenotypic plasticity and the study of the genomic bases of adaptation and speciation.Peerzada Yasir Yousuf, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Botany in the Department of Higher Education, Jammu and Kashmir, India. He has published research articles and book chapters and has presented his work at national and international conferences. He has also delivered extension lectures on plant physiology and molecular ecology. He was formerly a Senior Research Fellow at the Molecular Ecology Laboratory at Jamia Hamdard (deemed to be University), New Delhi.Khalid Rehman Hakeem, PhD, is Professor at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He has more than 10 years of teaching and research experience in plant ecophysiology, biotechnology and molecular biology, medicinal plant research, plant-microbe-soil interactions, as well as in environmental studies. He is also involved with several international research projects with government organizations. To date, Dr. Hakeem has authored and edited more than 60 books with international publishers and has published more than 115 research publications in international journals, over 50 book chapters, and several edited books.

"In this book, established and emerging methodologies being employed in ecological genomics have been discussed, and emphasis has been made on how this framework can address long-standing and emerging questions in plant ecology. It aims to highlight how indispensable the eco-genomics approach is and how the advances in the field of genomics have revolutionized the discipline of field of ecology."Prof. Munir Ozturk, (Prof. Emeritus) Department of Botany, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey

• 1. Eco-Genomics: An Appraisal 2. Advancement in Molecular Tools of Plant Population Genetics 3. Application of Next-Generation Sequencing in Plant Molecular Ecology 4. Approaches for Metabarcoding and Environmental DNA (eDNA) Assays in Plants 5. Role of Epigenetics in Ecogenomics 6. QTL Analysis and Reverse Genetics in Molecular Systematics 7. Dispersal, Gene Flow, and Population Structure 8. Ecological Genomics in Context with Plant Adaptations and Speciation 9. Role of Ecogenomics in Conservation and Management 10. Genetic Diversity as a Conservation Tool 11. Inbreeding and Genetic Load and Role of Ecogenomics in Landscape Genetic Restoration 12. Plant Ecogenomics: Challenges and Opportunities