Part I. Genetic Resource Utilization and Conservation -- 1. Plant Domestication and Utilization: The Case of the Pampa Biome -- 2. Decentralized Collaborative Plant Breeding for Utilization and Conservation of Neglected and Underutilized Crop Genetic Resources -- 3. Plant Cryopreservation for Biotechnology and Breeding -- 4. Mutants as a Genetic Resource for Future Crop Improvement -- Part II. Breeding Strategies -- 5. Conventional Plant Breeding Principles and Techniques -- 6. Applying Epigenetics in Plant Breeding: Balancing Genome Stability and Phenotypic Plasticity -- 7. Progress and Perspectives of Distant Heterosis in Rice -- 8. Forward and Reverse Genetics in Crop Breeding -- 9. Doubled Haploid Breeding in Cereals -- Part III. In Vitro Culture and Transgenic Approaches -- 10. Applications of In Vitro Techniques in Plant Breeding -- 11. Induced Mutations in Plant Breeding -- 12. Alternative to Transgenesis: Cisgenesis and Intragenesis -- 13. Transgenic Pyramiding for Crop Improvement -- 14. RNAi Technology: A Potential Tool in Plant Breeding -- Part IV. Molecular Breeding -- 15. Molecular Marker-Assisted Breeding: A Plant Breeder's Review -- 16. Mutant-Based Reverse Genetics for Functional Genomics of Non-Model Crops -- 17. Prospects of Functional Genomics in Sugarcane -- 18. Potentials of Proteomics in Crop Breeding -- 19. Utilization of Diverse Sequencing Panels for Future Plant Breeding -- 20. Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Tools and Impact in Plant Breeding -- 21. Molecular Breeding for Genetic Improvement of Cotton (Gossypium spp.) -- Index.