Omics Approaches for Sugarcane Crop Improvement

In this book, the information encompasses various researchable biotechnology aspects of sugarcane, its genomic structure, diversity, comparative and structural genomics, data mining, etc. This book explores both the theoretical and practical aspects of sugarcane crops, focusing on innovative processes. This book argues in favor of developing an integrated research and development system to strengthen the research and development capabilities of all the areas of sugarcane. Further, it covers the recent trends of sugarcane biotechnology, especially in the next-generation sequencing (NGS) era. This book will be very useful for professors and scientists who are working in the area of sugarcane crops by using molecular biology and bioinformatics. It is also useful for students to use as a reference for their classes or thesis projects. Key features: • Discusses an integral part of molecular biology and pivotal tools for molecular breeding; enables breeders to design cost-effective and efficient breeding strategies for sugarcane • Discusses the harnessing genomics technologies for genetic engineering and pathogen characterization and diagnosis of sugarcane • Provides new examples and problems, added where needed • Provides insight from contributors drawn from around the globe

1. Potential and Advanced Strategies for Sugarcane improvement M.F. Perera, F.Budeguer, R.Enrique, S. Ostengo, A.S. Noguera and J. Racedo 2. Role of Biotechnology for Improvement of Sugarcane Saleem Ur Rahman, Hamza Ramzan, Haris Khurshid, Niaz Ahmad, Kai Wang, Zahid Mukhtar, Ghulam Raza 3. Biotechnological intervention in sugarcane: Progress made so far Gauri Nerkar, Madhavi Purankar, Suman Devarumath, Rachayya Devarumath and Harinath Babu 4. Sugarcane Biotechnology: Developments and Opportunities Sarita Kumari, Vimanth. S and Sumeet Kumar Singh 5. Augmenting sugar accumulation potential in sugarcane: Conventional and molecular approaches Swapna M 6. Omics Applications to Decipher Host-Pathogen Interactions and to Understand Pathogens in sugarcane R. Viswanathan, A. Ramesh Sundar, P. Malathi and K. Nithya 7. Genomics assisted precision breeding for drought tolerance in sugarcane Swapan K Tripathy 8. Enhancing Abiotic stress tolerance of Sugarcane: Genome Editing Approach Prabhakaran N, Boobalakrsihan, G, Muthuramalingam Pandiyan, and Radhesh Krishnan S 9. Techniques for the identification of defence-related protein in sugarcane in response to biotic stress Smriti Mall 10. Physiological and molecular stress responses in sugarcane Abdelaleim Ismail ElSayed, Ahmad A. Omar 11. Avoidance and Tolerance Strategy of sugarcane in drought stress: Response Mechanism Varucha Misra, Ashutosh Kumar Mall and A.D. Pathak 12. High throughput DNA Sequencing and SNP-Markers based Identification of Sugarcane Cultivars for Parentage Determination and Intellectual Property Protection Bilal Saleem, Zeshan Haider, Muhammad Noman, Muhammad Ramzan Khan 13. Recent advancements in diagnostics and management of phytoplasma infecting sugarcane Atul Kumar and Somnath Kadappa Holkar 14. A perspective on the improvement of Sugarcane for sugar, ethanol and biofuel production through innovative biotechnology: Scope, importance & its challenges Pramod N. Nair and H.K.Sachan 15. Industrial Biotechnology Applied to Sugarcane- Manuel Díaz de los Ríos and Georgina Michelena Álvarez

Prof (Dr.) Rajarshi Kumar Gaur earned PhD in 2005, now Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. His Ph.D was on molecular characterization of sugarcane viruses, viz., mosaic, streak mosaic and yellow luteovirus. He received MASHAV fellowship of Israel government for his post-doctoral studies and joined The Volcani Centre, Israel and BenGurion University, Negev, Israel. In 2007 he received the Visiting Scientist Fellowship from Swedish Institute Fellowship, Sweden to work in the Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden. Received Post-Doc. Fellowship from ICGEB, Italy in 2008. He has made significant contributions on plant viruses and published 130 national/international papers, authored 18 edited books and presented near about 50 papers in the national and international conferences. He has honoured as Fellow of Linnean Society, Fellow of Royal society of Biology, Fellow of Society of Plant Research. Fellow of Society of Applied Biology (FSAB), Fellow of International Society of Biotechnology (FISBT). He has bagged many other awards like, Prof. B.M. Johri memorial Award, Society of Plant Research (SPR), Excellent Teaching Award by Astha Foundation, Meerut, UGC-Research Teacher Award, Young Scientist Award-2012 in Biotechnology by Society of Plant Research (SPR), Meerut, Scientific & Applied Research Centre Gold Medal Award-2011 for outstanding contribution in the field of Biotechnology. He has visited several laboratories of USA, Canada, New Zealand, UK, Thailand, Sweden, Italy. He is also associated with several international journals as an academic editors and reviewers like Frontiers in Microbiology, Plose One, Scientific Reports, 3Biotech, J. of Plant Growth Regulators, Molecular Biology Report, Plant Disease, Current Genomic, Scientific African, Indian Phytopathology, VirusDisease etc. Currently, he is involved in many national & international grants and international collaborative projects on plant viruses and disease management.