This book provides a comprehensive review of advances in breeding techniques for cereals such as wheat, barley maize and rye.

Part 1 discusses ways of better exploiting genetic diversity through techniques such as trait introgression. Parts 2-3 then summarise developments in the use of doubled haploids and hybrid breeding methods. Parts 4-5 review advances in high throughput phenotyping and its use in identifying markers for breeding using techniques such as genome-wide association studies and nested association mapping.

Contributions by: Wei Zhang, Xiwen Cai, Matthew Haas, Martin Mascher, Miguel Sanchez-Garcia, Alison R. Bentley, W. Tadesse, S. Tawkaz, M. Baum, Benjamin Wittkop, László Csélènyi, Timm Bernhard, Willem S. Molenaar, Albrecht E. Melchinger, Philipp H. G. Boeven, C. Friedrich H. Longin, Thomas Miedaner, Peer Wilde, Andreas Hund, Lukas Kronenberg, Jonas Anderegg, Kang Yu, Achim Walter, Matthew Reynolds, Francisco Pinto, Carly Schramm, Yuri Shavrukov, Peter Anderson, Akhylbek Kurishbaev, Satyvaldy Jatayev, Jan Bettgenhaeuser, Simon G. Krattinger, Roberto Tuberosa, Marco Maccaferri, Silvio Salvi, Boby Mathew, Mikko J. Sillanpää, Jens Léon, Andreas Maurer, Klaus Pillen, Susanne Dreisigacker, Ernesto Igartua, Carlos P. Cantalapiedra, Ana M. Casas, Patrick Thorwarth, Jochen Kumlehn, Stefan Hiekel, Nagaveni Budhagatapalli