1. Insights into Molecular Markers and Applications in the 21st Century 2. QTL Mapping: Principle, Approaches, and Applications in Crop Improvement 3. Use of Cutting-Edge Technologies for Pulse Crops Improvement 4. Harnessing Genome Editing Approaches in Crop Improvement to Reshape Modern Agriculture 5. Towards Smart Plant Breeding: Genome Editing Tools for Efficient Manipulation of Economically Important Traits of Crop Species 6. Smart Breeding for Climate Resilient Agriculture 7. Reverse Breeding: A Novel Tool for Crop Improvement 8. Pre-Breeding to Molecular Breeding for Biotic Stress Management in Crop Plants 9. Perspectives of MutMap and Its Variants Towards Next Generation Plant Breeding 10. Allele Mining: Potential Tool for Accelerated Crop Breeding 11. Marker-Assisted Selection Approaches for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants 12. Marker-Assisted Selection Approaches for Improving Quality Traits 13. Recent Advances in Plant Breeding for Pulse Improvement 14. Role of Next-Generation Sequencing Technology in Crop Improvement