**Meet the editor**

Yelda Özden Çiftçi is a professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Gebze Technical University, Kocaeli, Turkey. She has gained much experience in the following areas of study: plant tissue culture and micropropagation with particular expertise in the effects of gaseous compounds (ethylene) on in vitro culture, PCR-based molecular markers, in vitro con-

servation and cryopreservation, genetic transformation of woody plants, abiotic stress tolerance, and plant-microbe interaction. She has authored or coauthored more than 75 papers, reviews, book chapters, books, and congress proceedings.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Section 1 Marker Assisted Breeding 1**

**Food Crops 45**

**thaliana 75**

**Breeding 93**

and Anand A. Kanatti

Chapter 1 **Marker-Assisted Breeding in Wheat 3**

Ahmed Jahoor and Jihad Orabi

Chapter 2 **Soybean Breeding on Seed Composition Trait 23**

Chapter 3 **Breeding Cultivars for Heat Stress Tolerance in Staple**

Chapter 4 **Functional Mapping of Plant Growth in Arabidopsis**

Chapter 5 **The Usage of Genomic Selection Strategy in Plant**

Chapter 6 **Role of Next-Generation RNA-Seq Data in Discovery and**

**Characterization of Long Non-Coding RNA in Plants 111** Shivi Tyagi, Alok Sharma and Santosh Kumar Upadhyay

Mohd Shamshad and Achla Sharma

**Section 2 RNA-seq and Gene Editing in Plants 109**

Hu Zhenbang and Chen Qingshan

Nana Vagndorf, Peter Skov Kristensen, Jeppe Reitan Andersen,

Qi Zhaoming, Jingyao Yu, Hongtao Qin, Zhang Zhanguo, Shiyu Huang, Xinyu Wang, Mao Xinrui, Qi Huidong, Zhengong Yin, Candong Li, Xiaoxia Wu, Xin Dawei, Jiang Hongwei, Liu Chunyan,

Mahalingam Govindaraj, Santosh K. Pattanashetti, Nagesh Patne

Kaiyue Liu, Wenhao Bo, Lina Wang, Rongling Wu and Libo Jiang
