%0 Book Section %A Gupta, P K %A Varshney, R K %B Cereal Genomics II %C Netherlands %D 2013 %E Gupta, P K %E Varshney, R K %F icrisat:6893 %I Springer %K Cereal Genomics %P 1-9 %T Cereal Genomics: Excitements, challenges and opportunities %U http://oar.icrisat.org/6893/ %X Cereals constitute the most important food crops of the world, occupying ~680 million hectares of land and producing ~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