Cereal Genomics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gupta, P. K. (Editor), Varshney, R. K. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Human genetics.; Genetic engineering.; Agriculture.; Evolutionary biology.; Plant science.; Botany.; Life Sciences.; Genetic Engineering.; Human Genetics.; Plant Sciences.; Evolutionary Biology.

Cereals make an important component of daily diet of a major section of human population, so that their survival mainly depends on the cereal grain production, which should match the burgeoning human population. Due to painstaking efforts of plant breeders and geneticists, at the global level, cerea...

Table of Contents:

• Cereal Genomics: An Overview
• Molecular Marker Systems and Their Evaluation for Cereal Genetics
• Molecular Maps in Cereals: Methodology and Progress
• Organization of Retrotransposons and Microsatellites in Cereal Genomes
• Comparative Genomics in Cereals
• Population Genetic Structure of Wild Barley and Wheat in the Near East Fertile Crescent: Regional and Local Adaptive Patterns
• Gene and Genome Changes During Domestication of Cereals
• QTLs and Genes for Disease Resistance in Barley and Wheat
• QTLs and Genes for Tolerance to Abiotic Stress in Cereals
• Marker Assisted Selection in the Cereals: The Dream and the Reality
• Map-Based Gene Isolation in Cereal Genomes
• Gene Distribution in Cereal Genomes
• Whole Genome Sequencing: Methodology and Progress in Cereals
• Bioinformatics and Triticeae Genomics: Resources and Future Developments
• Functional Genomics of Seed Development in Cereals
• Functional Genomics for Tolerance to Abiotic Stress in Cereals
• The Arabidopsis Genome and Its Use in Cereal Genomics
• Rice Genome as a Model System for Cereals
• Cereal Genomics Research in the Post-genomic Era
• Genomics for Cereal Improvement.