Part 1-General -- 1. Introduction to Marker-Assisted Crop Improvement -- Part 2-Genetic Markers -- 2. Hybridization-Based Markers -- 3. Polymerase Chain Reaction-Based Markers -- 4. Sequence-Based Markers -- Part 3-Linkage Maps -- 5. Mapping Populations -- 6. Linkage Mapping of Molecular Markers and Oligogenes -- 7. Mapping of Quantitative Trait Loci -- 8. Association Mapping -- Part 4-Applications -- 9. Marker-Assisted Selection -- 10. Genomic Selection -- 11. Phylogenetic Relationships and Genetic Diversity -- 12. Finger printing and Gene Cloning -- 13. High-Throughput Genotyping -- 14. Bioinformatics Tools and Databases for Genomics Research -- 15. Phenomics.