%K Cereal Genomics %C Netherlands %A P K Gupta %A R K Varshney %I Springer %B Cereal Genomics II %L icrisat6893 %P 1-9 %D 2013 %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 %E P K Gupta %E R K Varshney %T Cereal Genomics: Excitements, challenges and opportunities