@incollection{icrisat6893, editor = {P K Gupta and R K Varshney}, booktitle = {Cereal Genomics II}, title = {Cereal Genomics: Excitements, challenges and opportunities}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Netherlands}, author = {P K Gupta and R K Varshney}, pages = {1--9}, year = {2013}, keywords = {Cereal Genomics}, url = {http://oar.icrisat.org/6893/}, abstract = {Cereals constitute the most important food crops of the world, occupying {\texttt{\char126}}680 million hectares of land and producing {\texttt{\char126}}2,295 million tonnes of food grain globally (October 4, 2012; http://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/wfs-home/csdb/en/), even though this production is lower than that for the year 2011 (2,340 million tonnes} }