Soybeans VOL 2: Genome, Biotechnology, Stress, and Disease

PART I: SOYBEAN GENOMICS, PROTEOMICS, AND TOOLS

1. Soybean Genetics Emphasizing Chromosome and Genome Organization

Meniari Taku, Pulak Debbarma, Rahul Kumar Shah, Manisha Saini, Ayyagari Ramlal, and Akshay Talukdar

2. Grain Structure Composition and Characteristics

Rahul Kumar, Manisha Saini, Meniari Taku, Pulak Debbarma, Rohit Kumar Mahto, Deepshikha Sharma, Santoshi Rawat, Purnima Ray, and Akshay Talukdar

3. Qualitative and Quantitative Traits of Soybean

Nisha Agarwal, Shivakumar M., Nataraj V., Giriraj Kumawat, Priya Meghwal, Satish Nagar, and Milind B. Ratnaparkhe

4. Soybean Protein Quality and Its Improvement

Bingi Pujari Mallikarjuna, Suresha P. G., Shivakumar Maranna, Sanjay Kumar Lal, K. Gopalakrishna Naidu, Akshay Talukdar, Ambika Rajendran, and Manisha Saini

5. Soybean Databases: A Means to Explore Soybean Information

Ashlesha Manta, Divya Sharma, Aakash Singh, Byonkesh Nongthongbam, Fatima Nazish Khan, Ayyagari Ramlal, Nisha Sogan, Sourav Singh Deo, and Aparna Nautiyal

PART II: IMPROVEMENTS IN SOYBEAN

6. Oil Quality Improvement in Soybean

Raman Pushpa, Palanivelu Sathya, Aravindan Shanmugam, Kalaiarasan Manivelan, and Balamurugan Mohanapriya

7. Herbicide-Tolerant Soybean: Past, Present, and Future

Preeti Gupta, Anjana Rustagi, and Prem Kumar Gupta

8. Molecular Tools for the Improvement of Oil Quality in Soybean

Viswabharathy Sakthivel, Chandrasekaran Deepika, Ponnuchamy Magudeeswari, Subramanian Divya, Pranay Gundala, Raman Pushpa, Murugesan Dhandapani, and Aravindan Shanmugam

9. In Vitro Intervention in Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.]

Shivam Raj, Sumit Kumar Kashyap, Rayees Ahmad Bhat, Ayyagari Ramlal, Sanjay Kumar Lal, Dhandapani Raju, Sreeramanan Subramaniam, and Ambika Rajendran

PART III: SOYBEAN DISEASES AND BIOTECHNOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS

10. Pathogens of Soybean: Symptoms, Crop Losses, and Biotechnological Strategies to Control

Megha Kumari, Shrishti Naidu, and Archana Singh

11. Enhancing Soybean Production Through Genetic Engineering and Molecular Breeding: A Review of Soybean Pests and Their Management Strategies

Manisha Yadav, Indrakant K. Singh, and Archana Singh

12. Abiotic Factors Influencing Yield and Productivity of Soybean

Ponnuchamy Magudeeswari, M. Vani Praveena, Aravindan Shanmugam,Balamurugan Mohanapriya, and Raman Pushpa

13. Physiological and Biochemical Responses to Biotic and Abiotic Stresses and Adaptations in Soybean

Jhilick Banerjee, Pawan K. Amrate, Riya Mishra, Vennampally Nataraj, M. K. Shrivastava, Akash Barela, and Shivani Jawarkar

PART IV: Pharmacological and Therapeutic Applications of Soybean

14. Soybean in Medicine

Sumit Kumar Kashyap, Raja Sekhar Reddy Noru, Amooru Harika, Raj Vrajesh Kothari, Ayyagari Ramlal, Ambika Rajendran, and Sanjay Kumar Lal

PART V: Future Prospects

15. Soybean: The Path Ahead

Ayyagari Ramlal, R. Ambika Rajendran, Sanjay Kumar Lal, and Chigeza Godfree

Biography

R. Ambika Rajendran, PhD, is a Senior Scientist of Plant Breeding, Division of Genetics, Indian Council of Agricultural Research–Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Delhi, India. Dr. Rajendran has over 15 years of research experience and currently works in abiotic stress tolerance and doubled haploidy in soybeans. She has edited two books, Genetics and Breeding in Pulses and Handbook of Cereals, and has also served as an editor for a book on soybean. She has published research articles in journals and book chapters. She is also serving as a reviewer for national and international journals.

Ayyagari Ramlal, MRSB, is a Senior Doctoral Scholar at the School of Biological Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia. He has worked as a Junior Research Fellow at the Division of Genetics, Indian Agricultural Research Institute and Banaras Hindu University, India. He also worked on an innovation research project initiated by the University of Delhi. He has received young author and the best author awards and has published research and review articles in international journals along with several book chapters. He served as an editor for the book Phytohormones in Abiotic Stress and is a review editor for the Biodiversity section of Frontiers in Young Minds.

Sanjay Kumar Lal, PhD, is a Principal Scientist at the Division of Genetics, Indian Council of Agricultural Research–Indian Agricultural Research Institute, and Coordinator of the Delhi Centre for All India Coordinated Research Project on Soybean. He has been working as an active researcher and has over 25 years of experience. His area of specialization includes soybean breeding, tissue culture, and molecular breeding. He has published over 50 articles in journals and has released several varieties of soybean, including Pusa9712 and Pusa9814.

Godfree Chigeza, PhD, is associated with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Zambia, as a Soybean Breeder. He formerly worked as breeder project lead at MRI Zambia, Syngenta, Africa and Middle East (AME). He was the project's team lead for maize breeding at the Agricultural Research Council-Grain Crops Institute, South Africa, and worked as a field trial and horticultural manager at the Centre for Novel Agricultural Products at the University of York, UK. Dr. Chigeza has a PhD in Plant Breeding from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.