Department of Agriculture Biotechnology, Division of Plant Biotechnology, College of Agriculture; SVP University of Agriculture and  Technology, Meerut INDIA

Crop improvement is a continuous process which is driven by the increasing population which needs food security with sustainable production. In the recent past bioinformatics and multiomics tools played an important role and may provide novel opportunities for improving traits by inserting the genes with high precision. In the last decade remarkable progress has been done in the discovery of useful genes for yield, quality, resistance to biotic and abiotic stress etc. With the development of new techniques such as NGS, gene editing and other omics tools with bioinformatics advancement, many new crops have been developed. Therefore, integrated omics and bioinformatics tools are having a major impact which may have a major thrust to develop high yield crops in future. The aim of the present review is to highlights the basic and applied concepts of bioinformatics and genomics by integrating them for crop improvement.