Quantitative genetics and breeding have made a major contribution to crop improvement over the years, but the genomics revolution has dramatically changed the field - this second edition of a popular book explains how traditional and genomic techniques have been combined to advance the field.

Contributions by: Nourollah Ahmadi, Meike S Anderson, Robyn Anderson, Paolo Annicchiarico, Vivi N Arief, Baffour Badu-Apraku, Surinder S Banga, Jérôme Bartholomé, Kaye E Basford, Jacqueline Batley, Dharminder Bhatia, Darshan S Brar, Juan Burgueño, Tuong-Vi Cao, Hernán Ceballos, Salvatore Ceccarelli, Sandeep Chapagain, Binu Cherian, José Crossa, Mônica Furaste Danilevicz, Ian H DeLacy, David Edwards, M A B Fakorede, Cassandria Tay Fernandez, Mahalingam Govindaraj, Cécile Grenier, Mehak Gupta, L A Hunt, Shailesh Vinay Joshi, Philomin Juliana, Anand Kanatti, Manjit S Kang, M T Labuschagne, Dyfed Lloyd Evans, Suschismita Modal, Gurbachan Singh Miglani, Osval A Montesinos-López, E Obeng-Bio, S A Oyekale, Paulino Pérez-Rodríguez, Wolfgang H Pfeiffer, M Pillay, K N Rai, Lovepreet Singh, Rajveer Singh, Ravi Prakash Singh, Prasanta K Subudhi, A O Talabi, S N Tchala, Soodeh Tirnaz, Parminder S Virk, Weikai Yan