ABSTRACT
Genetic Potential ................................................................................................................ 971 43.10 Positional Breeding for Drought Tolerance ........................................................................ 971 43.11 Marker-Assisted and Molecular Breeding ......................................................................... 972 43.12 Conclusions ........................................................................................................................ 974 Acknowledgment ........................................................................................................................... 974 References ...................................................................................................................................... 974
Packaging, transport, and intersections are posing a challenge to food provision. Our civilization has become divided into much privileged elite and alienated penurious fragments. Although the Green Revolution won the battle against widespread hunger and ensured sufcient food provision for some decades, to sustain its pace needs regular inputs from all corners of the world. Among many alarming issues is the fragmentation of productive land due to population pressure, particularly in Asia and Africa. Even as a big part of the rural society is being transformed into landless poor, a large number of people-rich and poor-in developing countries are choosing to forsake an agricultural lifestyle and move to cities, just as occurred 200 years ago in Europe. Political instability and landlords’ and capitalists’ hold in politics has made the situation worse for proper planning, causing under execution of plans in most populated parts of the world. Additionally, the regular occurrence of disasters is a threat to humanity; although these may be caused by natural forces, their consequences are regularly exacerbated by choices made by humankind.
