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Genomics in Crop Improvement: Potential Applications, Challenges and Future Prospects

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Until recent past, genomics and bioinformatics were considered as different subjects and now their applications started yielding crop improvement. Though the resources are being added fast in public databases, the effective utilization of the available resources is yet to be attempted. The reasons behind the slow phase of genomics applications and generating resources and possible future path are discussed in this chapter.

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  2. Section of Plant Pathology/Nematology, Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India

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  3. Mountain Research Centre For Field Crops, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Khudwani, Jammu and Kashmir, India

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Yasin, J.K. et al. (2021). Genomics in Crop Improvement: Potential Applications, Challenges and Future Prospects. In: Kumar Srivastava, D., Kumar Thakur, A., Kumar, P. (eds) Agricultural Biotechnology: Latest Research and Trends . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2339-4_15

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