Omics and System Biology Approaches for Delivering Better Cereals
暫譯: 基因組學與系統生物學方法提升穀物品質

本書探討可用的組學資源、多組學數據的整合以及系統生物學方法，重點在於它們在穀物育種和研究中的應用。它突顯了當前和創新的策略，以理解複雜性狀、提高產量以及增強對生物和非生物壓力的抵抗力。書中還討論了與建模多組學數據和分析系統層級信息相關的挑戰和機會。通過利用系統生物學和整合組學研究，本書旨在重新定義穀物改良的未來研究議程。

Dinesh Kumar Saini, a post-doctoral research associate in the Department of Plant and Soil Science at Texas Tech University, Texas, USA, has significant research expertise in Plant Breeding, Genomics, Crop Biotechnology, and Physiology. He earned his Bachelor of Science (Agriculture) and Master of Science (Genetics and Plant Breeding) degrees from Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh (India). He has qualified for several national level exams (in India), including ICAR-SRF and ASRB-NET in Plant Breeding and Genetics, as well as GATE in Life Science. During his Ph.D. program at Punjab Agricultural University in Ludhiana, Punjab, he was also awarded prestigious fellowships such as DST-INSPIRE and ICAR-SRF. He has received a number of medals, including the Chancellor Silver Medal, Vice-Chancellor Gold Medal (twice), University Gold Medal in Crop Improvement and Protection, Dr. M.S. Randhawa Medal, Best Research Scholar Award(s), Student of the Year Award, etc. He has also contributed to the development of a comprehensive wheat QTL database (http: //wheatqtldb.net/) as a core member. He has co-authored more than 40 articles published in high impact factor journals. Further, he has co-authored 13 book chapters, 8 popular articles, and 25 abstracts and contributed to two international annual wheat newsletters. He is also continuously involved in reviewing the articles for more than 20 reputed journals. He is a member of several professional societies including Crop Science Society of America, American Society of Agronomy, Society for Advancement of Wheat and Barley Research, Indian Society of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Bioinformatics Club for Experimenting Scientists. Additionally, he is actively engaged in serving reputed journals, such as The Plant Phenome Journal, BMC Genomics, and Frontiers in Plant Science, in various editorial capacities.

Prof. Chittaranjan Kole is an internationally reputed scientist with an illustrious professional career spanning over forty years and original contributions in the fields of plant genomics, biotechnology, and molecular breeding leading to the publication of more than 160 quality research articles. He has edited over 190 books for the leading publishers of the world including Springer Nature, Wiley-Blackwell and Taylor and Francis Group. His scientific contributions and editing acumen have been appreciated by seven Nobel Laureates including Profs. Norman Borlaug, Arthur Kornberg, Werner Arber, Phillip Sharp, Günter Blobel, Lee Hartwell and Roger Kornberg. He has been honored with a number of Fellowships, Honorary Fellowships, and national and international awards including the Outstanding Crop Scientist award conferred by the International Crop Science Society. He was awarded with the Raja Ramanna Fellow by the Department of Energy, Government of India. He has served at all prestigious positions in academia including as Vice-Chancellor of Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Project Coordinator of Indo-Russian Center of Biotechnology in India, and Director of Research of Institute of Nutraceutical Research of Clemson University, in USA. He worked also in the Pennsylvania State University and Clemson University as Visiting Professor. He has been heading the International Climate-Resilient Crop Genomics Consortium, International Phytomedomics and Nutriomics Consortium and Genome India Internationalas their Founder President. He is also the Founder Chairman of Prof. Chittaranjan Kole Foundation for Science and Society.

**Dinesh Kumar Saini** 是美國德克薩斯州德克薩斯科技大學植物與土壤科學系的博士後研究助理，擁有植物育種、基因組學、作物生物技術和生理學方面的豐富研究專長。他在印度烏塔爾普拉德什的查烏達里·查蘭·辛格大學獲得農學學士學位和遺傳學與植物育種碩士學位。他通過了多項全國級考試（在印度），包括植物育種和遺傳學的 ICAR-SRF 和 ASRB-NET，以及生命科學的 GATE。在旁遮普農業大學的博士學位課程中，他還獲得了 DST-INSPIRE 和 ICAR-SRF 等多項著名獎學金。他獲得了多枚獎牌，包括校長銀獎、兩次副校長金獎、作物改良與保護大學金獎、M.S. Randhawa 獎牌、最佳研究學者獎、年度學生獎等。他還作為核心成員參與了綜合小麥 QTL 數據庫的開發（http://wheatqtldb.net/）。他共同撰寫了超過 40 篇發表在高影響因子期刊的文章。此外，他還共同撰寫了 13 篇書章、8 篇流行文章和 25 篇摘要，並為兩本國際年度小麥通訊做出了貢獻。他還持續參與超過 20 本知名期刊的文章審稿工作。他是多個專業學會的成員，包括美國作物科學學會、美國農藝學會、小麥與大麥研究促進會、印度遺傳學與植物育種學會、實驗科學家生物信息學俱樂部。此外，他還積極參與多本知名期刊的編輯工作，如《植物表型期刊》、《BMC 基因組學》和《植物科學前沿》。

**Chittaranjan Kole 教授** 是一位國際知名的科學家，擁有超過四十年的卓越職業生涯，並在植物基因組學、生物技術和分子育種領域做出了原創貢獻，發表了超過 160 篇高質量的研究文章。他為全球領先的出版商編輯了超過 190 本書籍，包括 Springer Nature、Wiley-Blackwell 和 Taylor and Francis Group。他的科學貢獻和編輯才能得到了七位諾貝爾獎得主的讚賞，包括 Norman Borlaug 教授、Arthur Kornberg 教授、Werner Arber 教授、Phillip Sharp 教授、Günter Blobel 教授、Lee Hartwell 教授和 Roger Kornberg 教授。他獲得了多項獎學金、榮譽獎學金以及國內外獎項，包括國際作物科學學會頒發的傑出作物科學家獎。他曾獲得印度政府能源部頒發的 Raja Ramanna 獎學金。他在學術界擔任過所有重要職位，包括比丹·昌德拉農業大學的副校長、印度印俄生物技術中心的項目協調員，以及美國克萊姆森大學營養保健研究所的研究主任。他還曾在賓夕法尼亞州立大學和克萊姆森大學擔任訪問教授。他是國際氣候韌性作物基因組聯盟、國際植物醫學與營養組合以及印度基因組國際的創始會長。他還是 Chittaranjan Kole 科學與社會基金會的創始主席。