Genomics of Plant Genetic Resources

Volume 2. Crop productivity, food security and nutritional quality

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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Beskrivning

Our lives and well being intimately depend on the exploitation of the plant genetic resources available to our breeding programs. This book will be an invaluable reference for all those interested in managing, mining and harnessing the genetic richness of plant genetic resources.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-01-15
Mått:155 x 235 x 25 mm
Vikt:886 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:515
Upplaga:2014
Förlag:Springer
ISBN:9789400775749

Utforska kategorier

Växtböcker inom Djur och Natur
Botanik inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Biokemisk teknik inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Innehållsförteckning

Harnessing plant genetic diversity for enhancing crop production and its sustainability.- Genetics and genomics of flowering time regulation in sugar beet.- Mining the genus Solanum for increasing disease resistance.- Dissection of potato complex traits by linkage and association genetics as basis for developing molecular diagnostics in breeding programs.- Introgression libraries with wild relatives of crops.- High-throughput phenomics tools for interactions of barley with fungal pathogens.- Genomics of low-temperature tolerance for an increased sustainability of wheat and barley production.- Bridging conventional breeding and genomics for a more sustainable wheat production.- Genetic Dissection of Aluminium Tolerance in the Triticeae.- Maintaining Food Value of Wild Rice (Zizania palustris L.) Using Comparative Genomics.- Genomics-assisted crop improvement for food security.- Genomics-assisted allele mining and its integration into rice breeding.- New insights arising from genomics for enhancing rice resistance against the blast fungus.- Enhancing abiotic stress tolerance in plants by modulating properties of stress responsive transcription factors.- The Borlaug Global Rust Initiative: Reducing the genetic vulnerability of wheat to rust.- Genomes, chromosomes and genes of the wheatgrass genus Thinopyrum: the value of their transfer into wheat for gains in cytogenomic knowledge and sustainable breeding.- Identification and implementation of resistance: Genomics-assisted use of genetic resources for breeding against powdery mildew and Stagonospora nodorum blotch in wheat.- G6nomics-assised crop improvement for nutritional quality.- Breeding for apple (Malus × domestica Borkh.) fruit quality traits in the genomics era.- Enhancing nutritional quality in crops via genomics approaches.- N. Genomics of mineral nutrient biofortification: calcium, iron and zinc.- Optimising the content and composition of dietary fibre in wheat grain for end-use quality.- TILLINGfor improved starch composition in wheat.- Molecular Breeding for Quality Protein Maize (QPM. Index.