Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies: Industrial and Food Crops

Preface. - About the Editors. - Contributors. - Part I. Industrial Crops. - 1. Genetics and Breeding of Tropical Acacias for Forest Products: Acacia mangium, A. auriculiformis and A. crassicarpa; Arif Nirsatmanto, Sri Sunarti. - 2. Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) Breeding Strategies; Saeed Rauf et al. - 3. CRISPR/Cas9: A New Genome Editing Tool to Accelerate Cotton (Gossypium spp.) Breeding; Muhammad N. Sattar et al. - 4. Jute (Corchorus spp.) Breeding; Liwu Zhang et al. - 5. Ramie (Boehmeria nivea L. Gaud) Genetic Improvement; Pratik Satya et al. - 6. Genetic Improvement of Guayule (Parthenium argentatum A. Gray): An Alternative Rubber Crop; Hussein Abdel-Haleem et al. - 7. Biotechnological Advances in Rubber Tree (Hevea brasiliensis Muell. Arg.) Breeding; Sankaran Sobha et al. - 8. Genetics and Breeding of Jojoba [Simmondsia chinensis (Link) Schneider]; Mohamed M. A. Khairi. - 9. Flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) Genomics and Breeding; Frank M. You et al. - 10. Breeding Strategies to Improve Production of Agave (Agave spp.); Kelly M. Monja-Mio et al. - 11. Sugarcane (Saccharum spp.): Breeding and Genomics; Shriram J. Mirajkar et al. - Part II. Food Crops. - 12. Cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) Breeding; Frances Bekele, Wilbert Phillips-Mora. - 13. Oil Palm (Elaeis spp.) Breeding in Malaysia; Fadila Ahmad Malike et al. - 14. Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) Breeding; Pooran Golkar, Somayeh Karimi. - 15. Advances in Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) Breeding; Swapan K. Tripathy et al. - 16. Breeding Strategies for Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) Genetic Improvement; Saeed Rauf. - 17. Saffron (Crocus sativus L.) Breeding: Opportunities and Challenges; Majid Shokrpour. - 18. Vanilla (Vanilla spp.) Breeding; Alan H. Chambers. - Index.