The book entitled “Molecular Plant Breeding: Managing Biotic and Abiotic Stress” provides state-of-the-art developments on various facets leading to improved agricultural production and productivity. 

Field crops make a significant contribution in overall agricultural production and figure as an integral component in the nation's economy. Cereals are budding as an important sector at the present time. Cereal grain production provides a promising economic opportunity for plummeting rural poverty and unemployment in developing countries. The present and the future need is considerable augmentation in production, improved nutritional quality and resilience to biotic and abiotic stresses in the face of changing climatic scenarios.  Hence there is need to formulate strategy regarding improvement in crop production. This book provides the advances regarding enhanced production and quality of field crops through genetic improvements and other innovative interventions, plant resistance and defence mechanism, genetics, chemical composition, hormone signaling, phytoalexins in plants, physiology of seed maturation and various aspects regarding breeding of cereal crops. With the recent advances in molecular biology tools there has been a tremendous advance in the application of the technologies to crop improvement. This book is intended to have professional text to cover some part of the courses offered at post-graduation levels by various agricultural universities as well.

We intently feel that this book will be extremely useful for students, especially those who explore breeding of field crops at molecular level, research scholars and scientists working in the area of sustainable agriculture development at Universities, Research institutes, R&Ds of Agricultural MNC's for conducting research and various Funding Agencies for planning future strategies. 

1. Biochemical and Genetic Basis of Rice Quality
   Nakeeb-Un-Nisa, Najeeb ul Rehman Sofi, Asif B. Shikari, Sumira Rafiqee, Musharib Gull, Raheel Shafeeq Khan and Heena Altaf, Mohammad Saleem Dar and Shabir H Wani
2. Combating Malnutrition through Enhancement of Bioavailability of Essential Micronutrients in Cereal Crops using Innovative Breeding Approaches
   Nakeeb-Un-Nisa, Sumira Rafiqee, Sadiah Shafi, Musharib Gull, Heena Altaf, Mohammad Saleem Dar and Shabir H Wani
3. Forward and Reverse Genetics in Functional Genomics and Breeding
   Nakeeb-Un-Nisa, Ishfaq Abidi, Mohammad Saleem Dar, Sumira Rafiqee, Musharib Gull, Heena Altaf, and Shabir H. Wani
4. Genotyping by Sequencing (GBS) for Rice: Status and Prospects
   Nakeeb-Un-Nisa, Najeeb Ul Rehman Sofi, Sumira Rafiqee, Musharib Gull, Heena Altaf, Mohammad Saleem Dar and Shabir H. Wani
5. Breeding Designer Crops
   Musharib Gull, Mohammad Saleem Dar, Sumira Rafiqee, Nakeeb-Un-Nisa, Heena Altaf, Javeid Ahmad Dar and Shabir H. Wani
6. Magic Populations and their Role in Agriculture
   Musharib Gull, Parvazae A. Sofi, Mohammad Saleem Dar, Sumira Rafiqee, Nakeeb-Un-Nisa, Heena Altaf, Ghulam Jeelani Dhobi and Shabir H. Wani
7. Gene Silencing: An Implicit Tool in Plant Breeding
   Musharib Gull, Asif B. Shikari, Nakeeb-Un-Nisa, Sumira Rafiqee, Raheel Shafeeq Khan, Heena Altaf, Mohammad Saleem Dar and Shabir H. Wani
8. Recombinant DNA Technology
   Musharib Gull, Najeeb Ul Rehman Sofi, Sumira Rafiqee, Nakeeb-Un-Nisa, Heena Altaf, Mohammad Saleem Dar and Shabir H. Wani
9. MicroRNAs: Role and Potential in Crop Improvement
   Sumira Rafiqee, Mehrajuddin Sofi, Nakeeb-Un-Nisa, Mohammad Saleem Dar, Musharib Gull, Heena Altaf and Shabir H. Wani
10. Golden Rice
    Sumira Rafiqee, Mehrajuddin Sofi, Nakeeb-Un-Nisa, Musharib Gull, Heena Altaf, Mohammad Saleem Dar and Shabir H. Wani
11. Circadian Clock and Defense Signaling in Plants
    Heena Altaf, Tabasum Manzoor, F. A. Mohiddin, Mohammad Ashraf Ahangar, Saima Bashir, Mohammad Saleem Dar, Sami Jan, Nakeeb-Un-Nisa, Sumira Rafiqee, Musharib Gull, and Shabir H. Wani
12. Hormone Signalling in Plant Defense
    Heena Altaf, Tabasum Manzoor, Fazil Fayaz Wani, F. A. Mohiddin, Mohammad Ashraf Ahangar, Tariq Rasool Rather, Mohammad Saleem Dar, Sami Jan, Nakeeb-Un-Nisa, Sumira Rafiqee, Musharib Gull and Shabir H. Wani,
13. Ontogenic Resistance in Plants
    Tabasum Manzoor, Heena Altaf, Mohammad Ashraf Ahangar, Tariq Rasool Rather, Ab. Raouf Malik, Sami Jan, Fazil Fayaz Wani, Saima Bashir, Mohammad Saleem Dar, F. A. Mohiddin, and Shabir H. Wani
14. Seed Vigour and Testing Methods
    Javeid Ahmad Dar, Tabasum Manzoor, Ghulam jeelani Dhobi, Suhail Nazir Bhat, Mohammad Saleem Dar, F. A. Mohiddin, and Shabir H. Wani
15. Phytoplasma Associated with Plant Disease, their Detection, Diagnosis and Management
    Mohammad Saleem Dar, Nakeeb-Un-Nisa, Ajaz Ahmad Kundoo, Musharib Gull, Raheel Shafeeq Khan, Suhail Nazir Bhat, Javeid Ahmad Dar, Sumira Rafiqee, Heena Altaf, Tabasum Manzoor, Ghulam jeelani Dhobi, F. A. Mohiddin and Shabir H. Wani
16. Phytoalexins and their Roles in Biotic and Abiotic Stresses
    Ghulam Jeelani Dhobi, Heena Altaf, Ajaz Ahmad Kundoo, Javeid Ahmad Dar, Mohammad Saleem Dar, and Shabir H. Wani
17. Beneficial Mycoviruses as a Biological Agent for Improving the Crop Plant Yield through their Exploration in Management Practices
    Mohammad Saleem Dar, Tabasum Manzoor, Aasiya-Nabi, Suhail Nazir Bhat, Ajaz Ahmad Kundoo, and Shabir H. Wani
18. Microbe Interactions affecting Plant Microbe Interactions
    Qadrul Nisa, Nakeeb-Un-Nisa, Sumira Rafiqee, Mohammad Saleem Dar, Ajaz Ahmad Kundoo, Suhail Nazir Bhat and Shabir H. Wani
19. Physiology of Seed Development and Maturation
    Suhail Nazir Bhat, Heena Altaf, Mohammad Saleem Dar, Ajaz Ahmad Kundoo, Javeid Ahmad Dar, Ghulam Jeelani Dhobi, F. A. Mohiddin and Shabir H. Wani
20. Chemical Composition, Synthesis and Accumulation of Seed Reserves
    Suhail Nazir Bhat, Sumira Rafiqee, Mohammad Saleem Dar, Ajaz Ahmad Kundoo, Raheel Shafeeq Khan and Shabir H. Wani
21. Crispr/Cas9 Platform for Genome Editing in Crop Plants with Special Reference to Vegetable Crops
    Aasiya-Nabi, Mir-Tabasum-Ashraf, Mohammad Saleem Dar, Ajaz Ahmad Kundoo, and Shabir H. Wani