Phenomics in Crop Plants: Trends, Options and Limitations

1. Plant Phenomics: An Overview.- 2. Traits for Phenotyping.- 3. High Precision Phenotyping under Controlled versus Natural Environments.- 4. Towards Digital and Image Based Phenotyping.- 5. Imaging Methods for Phenotyping of Plant Traits.- 6. Screening for Plant Features.- 7. Phenotyping Crop Plants for Drought and Heat Related Traits.- 8. Phenotyping for Root Traits.- 9. Phenotyping for Soil Problems.- 10. Phenotyping Methods of Fungal Diseases, Parasitic Nematodes and Weeds in Cool Season Food Legumes.- 11. Advances in Phenotyping of Functional Traits.- 12. Role of Fluorescence Approaches to Understand Functional Traits of Photosynthesis.- 13. Identification of Subcellular Structural and Metabolic Changes through NMR.- 14. Precision Nutrient Management and Crop Sensing.- 15. Phenotyping Nutritional and Anti-Nutritional Traits.- 16. Experimental Designs for Precision in Phenotyping.- 17. Biometrical Approaches for Analysis of Phenotypic Data of Complex Traits.- 18. Harnessing Genomics through Phenomics.- 19. High Throughput Plant Phenotyping Platforms.

Dr. Jitendra Kumar, born in 1973, is presently working as a Senior Scientist in the Division of Crop Improvement at Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kanpur. He has an excellent research career throughout. He secured Gold Medal during masters' programme and pursued his Ph.D. in Genetics & Plant Breeding from G. B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar, India. He was awarded CSIR-Research Associateship during 2003-2005 for postdoctoral studies at the Institute of Integrative Medicine, Jammu (India). He has more than 14 years of research experience in genetic improvement using both conventional and molecular marker-assisted breeding approaches on various crops including sunflower, medicinal and aromatic, cereal and pulse crops. He has done work on development of SSR markers, identification of QTLs for preharvest sprouting and high grain protein content and marker assisted breeding in wheat for pyramiding the preharvest sprouting tolerance and high grain protein content and leaf rust resistance and developed a number of lines. During this period, he undertook study tours of several countries including Austria, Syria, Bangladesh, Nepal, Lebanon and Canada. His research interests include conventional and molecular breeding, QTL analysis and marker assisted selection for crop improvement. He has more than 100 publications including research and review articles in reputed national and international journals, book chapters, meeting reports, popular articles, and bulletins. He has also co-edited three books including "Biology and Breeding of Food Legumes" published by CABI, Oxfordshire, "Alien Gene Transfer in Crop Plants: Innovations, Methods and Risk Assessment" and "Alien Gene Transfer in Crop Plants: Achievement and Impacts" both published by Springer, New York, USA. He has developed high-yielding varieties (IPL 316 and IPL 526) of lentil and several others are in pipeline. His current priorities include involvement ofmolecular marker