%K Crop breeding, Sustainable agriculture, Genomics interventions %C New York %A P L Kulwal %A M Thudi %A R K Varshney %I Springer %B Sustainable Food Production %L icrisat6979 %P 501-513 %D 2013 %X The goal of agricultural science is to increase crop productivity coupled with the quality of the products, and maintain the environment [1]. Food security is a growing concern worldwide, and more than 1 billion people are estimated to lack sufficient dietary energy availability [2]. The issue of “food security” has become so important that prominent scientific journals, including Science, have also published a special issue on this subject recently (February 12, 2010 issue)... %E P Christou %E R Savin %T Crop breeding for sustainable agriculture, genomics interventions in