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International authors review achievements, new developments, trends and challenges in the field of plant mutation breeding, across the scientific community and the private sector. Chapters highlight specific challenges, such as emerging transboundary threats to crop production, and assess the overall importance of mutation breeding to food security.

Plant biotechnology. --- Plant mutation breeding.

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This text explains how the study of fundamental plant physiological processes is being advanced through the science of genetics. The author adopts a case study approach to illustrate how defined genetic materials in mutants and plant variants are being used to explore plant physiology.

Plant physiology --- Plant mutation --- Mutation of plants --- Mutation (Biology) --- Plant genetics --- Botany --- Plants --- Physiology --- Genetic aspects --- Plant and Crop Sciences. Botany --- Case studies. --- Plant Physiology.

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Application of Mutation Breeding Methods in the Improvement of vegetatively propagated crops V2

633.61 --- 633.61 Sugar cane. Saccharum officinarum --- Sugar cane. Saccharum officinarum --- Oil palm --- -634.614 --- 665.353.4 --- 665.353.4 Palm oil --- Palm oil --- African oil palm --- Elaeis guineensis --- Elaeis melanococca --- Palm oil tree --- Elaeis --- 634.614 Oil palm. Elaeis guineensis --- Oil palm. Elaeis guineensis --- Oilseed plants --- Research --- Plant mutation breeding --- -Plant propagation --- Plant propagation --- -631.528 --- 631.528 Improvement by mutation (natural and induced mutation) --- Improvement by mutation (natural and induced mutation) --- Propagation of plants --- Horticulture --- Plants --- Mutation breeding --- Plant breeding --- Bibliography --- Reproduction --- Plant mutation breeding. --- Plant propagation. --- Plant and Crop Sciences. Plant Breeding and Genetics --- Bibliography. --- Plant Breeding and Selection Methods. --- Sugarcane -- Weed control. --- Sugarcane. --- Sugarcane --- Agriculture --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Civil Engineering --- Plant Sciences --- Weed control --- Saccharum officinarum --- Sugar-cane --- Energy crops --- Saccharum --- Sugar crops --- Rice - Adaptation. --- Rice - Effect of stress on. --- Rice - Reproduction. --- -Research --- -Bibliography

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Bananas are a staple food for over 500 million people and are also an important cash crop. Fusarium wilt, caused by the fungus Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense, is one of the most destructive diseases of banana globally. Since the 1990s, an aggressive variant of this fungus, called Tropical Race 4 (TR4), severely affected banana plantations in Southeast Asia from where it spread to other continents, including Latin America, where the global banana export market is primarily centred. TR4 is a soil borne pathogen making the disease difficult to contain. The Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture implemented a Coordinated Research Project (CRP) ‘Efficient Screening Techniques to Identify Mutants with Disease Resistance for Coffee and Banana” (2015-2020). This CRP brought together experts from Asia, Europe and Africa in addition to experts of the Joint FAO/IAEA Centre to develop resistance against TR4 through mutation-assisted breeding. Induced mutagenesis is particularly attractive in case of banana since most cultivated bananas are seedless, thus hampering conventional cross breeding. This Open Access book is a compilation of the protocols developed under the CRP specifically for TR4. The first part covers methods for mutation induction, including the integrated use of innovative single-cell culture with mutagenesis techniques. The book also describes up-to-date phenotypic screening methods for TR4 resistance in banana under field-, greenhouse- and laboratory conditions. Finally, molecular and bioinformatics tools for genome-wide mutation discovery following Next Generation Sequencing are also described. Given the imminent threat of Fusarium Wilt TR4 on banana production globally, it is our hope and intention that the book will serve as a timely reference and guide for banana breeders and pathologists worldwide who are committed to the genetic improvement of banana for Fusarium wilt resistance.

Plant diseases. --- Plant genetics. --- Agriculture. --- Plant Pathology. --- Plant Genetics. --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Plants --- Genetics --- Botany --- Communicable diseases in plants --- Crop diseases --- Crops --- Diseases of plants --- Microbial diseases in plants --- Pathological botany --- Pathology, Vegetable --- Phytopathology --- Plant pathology --- Vegetable pathology --- Agricultural pests --- Crop losses --- Diseased plants --- Phytopathogenic microorganisms --- Plant pathologists --- Plant quarantine --- Pathology --- Diseases and pests --- Diseases --- Wounds and injuries --- Musa --- Fusarium wilt TR4 --- mutation breeding --- phenotyping --- genotyping --- NGS --- Bananas --- Fusarium wilt of banana. --- Plant mutation. --- Disease and pest resistance. --- Genetics. --- Bananes --- Patologia vegetal --- Genètica vegetal --- Resistència als plaguicides --- Mutació (Biologia)