Genomics of Plant Genetic Resources : Volume 2. Crop productivity, food security and nutritional quality / edited by Roberto Tuberosa, Andreas Graner, Emile Frison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tuberosa, R. (Roberto), editor.

Contributor:

Graner, Andreas, editor.

Frison, E. A., editor.

SpringerLink (Online service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Life sciences.

Agriculture.

Biodiversity.

Botany.

Plant breeding.

Plant diseases.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustration

Contained In:

Springer eBooks

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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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. For each of these objectives, the book presents a number of compelling case studies and examples. This unique and timely book is an invaluable reference for educators, researchers, crop specialists, breeders and decision makers interested in managing, mining and harnessing the genetic richness of plant genetic resources.

Contents:

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

TILLING for improved starch composition in wheat

Molecular Breeding for Quality Protein Maize (QPM. Index.

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ISBN:

9789400775756

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