This edited book provides a comprehensive overview of modern strategies in fruit crop breeding
in the era of climate change and global warming. It demonstrates how advances in plant
molecular and genomics-assisted breeding can be utilized to produce improved fruit crops with
climate-smart traits. Agriculture is facing a number of challenges in the 21st century as it
has to address food nutritional energy and environmental security. Future fruit varieties
must be adaptive to the varying scenarios of climate change produce higher yields of
high-quality food feed and fuel and have multiple uses. To achieve these goals it is
imperative to employ modern tools of molecular breeding genetic engineering and genomics for
'precise' plant breeding to produce 'designed' fruit crop varieties.This book is of interest to
scientists working in the fields of plant genetics genomics breeding biotechnology and in
the disciplines of agronomy and horticulture.
