Wheat Wild Relatives: Developing Abiotic Stress Tolerance under Climate Change presents a state-of-the-art outline of the problem, including issues, opportunities, and modern developments in the utilization of Wild Wheat Relatives (WWR) and related neglected species for wheat crop improvement, specifically focusing on environmental constraints. The book comprehensively discusses different wheat wild relatives, including major genus Triticum and Aegilops and their utilization in mitigating different environmental constraints using agronomic, physiological, and molecular approaches. Chapters provide insights into the advancement in the deployment of wheat genetic resources, including wild relatives and neglected species for crop improvement towards environmental issues. Wheat is a major staple food crop that has largely been focused for fulfilling the food requirements of world population during the Green revolution. Since then, it has come to cover more agricultural land than any other commercial crop. Continuously changing climatic conditions have drastically affected wheat production, with yields largely limited by environmental constraints. Theses production losses caused by crop vulnerability to climate change may be resolved by using wheat wild relatives that are closely related to cultivated genotypes and known for their beneficial traits.
Table of Contents
1. Insight into the Wheat Genetic Resources with emphasis on Aegilops and Triticum species2. Use of Wild Relatives in Breeding Programs to develop Climate Resilient Wheat
3. Advancement in Genome Sequencing of Wheat Wild Relatives
4. Utilization of Wheat Wild Relatives for improving Drought Tolerance
5. Utilization of Wheat Wild Relatives for improving Cold Tolerance
6. Utilization of Wheat Wild Relatives for improving Heat Tolerance
7. Utilization of Wheat Wild Relatives for improving Salinity Tolerance
8. Utilization of Wheat Wild Relatives for improving Boron Stress Tolerance
9. Utilization of Wheat Wild Relatives for improving Low Nitrogen Stress Tolerance
10. Utilization of Wheat Wild Relatives for improving Fe-Zn deficiency Tolerance
11. Utilization of Wheat Wild Relatives for improving Ozone stress tolerance
12. Utilization of Wheat Wild Relatives for improving heavy metals stress tolerance
13. Exploring Genetic Variation for Environmental Stress Tolerance in Wheat Wild Relatives using Molecular Markers
14. Different Approaches used for Successful Utilization of Wheat Wild Relatives for Crop Improvement Agronomic, Physiological, Biochemical and Molecular Strategies
15. Use of Wheat Wild Relatives to improve End-use Quality in a Continuously Changing Climate Scenario
16. Microbiome Manipulation and Exploitation of Wild Relatives' Microbiome into Wheat breeding strategies and adaptation programmes
17. Utilization of Perennial Wheat Wild Relatives for the development of Abiotic Stress Tolerant Wheat Lines
