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Title Genomics of plant genetic resources. Volume 2, Crop productivity, food security and nutritional quality / Roberto Tuberosa, Andreas Graner, Emile Frison, editors
Published Dordrecht : Springer, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 505 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Part I. Harnessing Plant Genetic Diversity for Enhancing Crop Production and Its Sustainability -- Genetics and Genomics of Flowering Time Regulation in Sugar Beet / Siegbert Melzer, Andreas E. Müller and Christian Jung -- Mining the Genus Solanum for Increasing Disease Resistance / Jack H. Vossen, Kwang-Ryong Jo and Ben Vosman -- Dissection of Potato Complex Traits by Linkage and Association Genetics as Basis for Developing Molecular Diagnostics in Breeding Programs / Christiane Gebhardt, Claude Urbany and Benjamin Stich -- Introgression Libraries with Wild Relatives of Crops / Silvana Grandillo -- Microphenomics for Interactions of Barley with Fungal Pathogens / Dimitar Douchkov, Tobias Baum, Alexander Ihlow, Patrick Schweizer and Udo Seiffert -- Genomics of Low-Temperature Tolerance for an Increased Sustainability of Wheat and Barley Production / N. Pecchioni, K. Kosová, P. Vítámvás, I.T. Prášil, J.A. Milc, E. Francia, Z. Gulyás [and 2 others] -- Bridging Conventional Breeding and Genomics for A More Sustainable Wheat Production / P. Stephen Baenziger, Ali Bakhsh, Aaron Lorenz and Harkamal Walia -- Genetic Dissection of Aluminium Tolerance in the Triticeae / Harsh Raman and Perry Gustafson -- Maintaining Food Value of Wild Rice (Zizania palustris L.) Using Comparative Genomics / Alexander L. Kahler, Anthony J. Kern, Raymond A. Porter and Ronald L. Phillips -- Part II. Genomics-Assisted Crop Improvement for Food Security -- Genomics-Assisted Allele Mining and its Integration Into Rice Breeding / Toshio Yamamoto, Yusaku Uga and Masahiro Yano -- New Insights Arising from Genomics for Enhancing Rice Resistance Against the Blast Fungus / Elsa Ballini and Jean-Benoit Morel -- Enhancing Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants by Modulating Properties of Stress Responsive Transcription Factors / Maria Hrmova and Sergiy Lopato -- The Borlaug Global Rust Initiative: Reducing the Genetic Vulnerability of Wheat to Rust / Sarah Davidson Evanega, Ravi P. Singh, Ronnie Coffman and Michael O. Pumphrey -- Genomes, Chromosomes and Genes of the Wheatgrass Genus Thinopyrum : the Value of their Transfer into Wheat for Gains in Cytogenomic Knowledge and Sustainable Breeding / Carla Ceoloni, Ljiljana Kuzmanović, Andrea Gennaro, Paola Forte, Debora Giorgi [and 2 others] -- Identification and Implementation of Resistance: Genomics-Assisted use of Genetic Resources for Breeding Against Powdery Mildew and Stagonospora Nodorum Blotch in Wheat / Liselotte L. Selter, Margarita Shatalina, Jyoti Singla and Beat Keller -- Part III. Genomics-Assisted Crop Improvement for Nutritional Quality -- Breeding for Apple (Malus x domestica Borkh .) Fruit Quality Traits in the Genomics Era / Satish Kumar, Richard K. Volz, David Chagné and Susan Gardiner -- Enhancing Nutritional Quality in Crops Via Genomics Approaches / Meike S. Andersson, Wolfgang H. Pfeiffer and Joe Tohme -- Genomics of Mineral Nutrient Biofortification: Calcium, Iron and Zinc / Owen A. Hoekenga -- Optimising the Content and Composition of Dietary Fibre in Wheat Grain for End-use Quality / Peter R. Shewry, Luc Saulnier, Kurt Gebruers, Rowan A.C. Mitchell, Jackie Freeman [and 2 others] -- TILLING for Improved Starch Composition in Wheat / F. Sestili, E. Botticella and D. Lafiandra -- Molecular Breeding for Quality Protein Maize (QPM) / Raman Babu and B.M. Prasanna
Summary The future of food security will increasingly rely on more extensive exploration and effective exploitation of plant genetic resources. The remarkable progress in plant genomics, sequencing and bioinformatics offers unprecedented opportunities for mining germplasm collections, mapping and cloning loci of interest, identifying novel alleles and deploying them for breeding purposes. Genomics of Plant Genetic Resources presents a state-of-the-art collection of highly interdisciplinary articles describing how genomics improves our capacity to characterize and harness natural and artificially induced variation in order to boost crop productivity and provide consumers with high-quality food. In the past decade, the appreciation of the value of biodiversity has grown rapidly, mainly due to the increased awareness of the pivotal role that plant genetic resources plays for securing the supply of plant-derived products. Meeting the challenges posed by climate change and the needs of the burgeoning population will require a quantum leap in crop productivity, which will only be possible through the integration of genomics-based approaches with extant breeding programs. Additionally, the new selection paradigm ushered in by genomics-assisted breeding will facilitate allele mining in orphan crops and underutilized species, previously less accessible via conventional approaches. The unifying picture that emerges from this book unequivocally shows the pivotal role played by genomics in order to mine germplasm collections, elucidate gene function, identify superior alleles and, ultimately, release improved cultivars
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 9, 2014)
Subject Plant genetics.
Genomics, Plant -- genetics
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Botany.
Plant genetics
Form Electronic book
Author Tuberosa, R. (Roberto), editor.
Graner, Andreas, editor
Frison, E. A., editor
ISBN 9789400775756
940077575X
9400775741
9789400775749
Other Titles Crop productivity, food security and nutritional quality