The Kiwifruit Genome

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Testolin, Raffaele (Editor), Huang, Hong-Wen (Editor), Ferguson, Allan Ross (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Compendium of Plant Genomes,
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Agriculture.; Plant genetics.; Plant breeding.; Life Sciences.; Plant Genetics & Genomics.; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology.

This book describes the basic botanical features of kiwifruit and its wild relatives, reports on the steps that led to its genome sequencing, and discusses the results obtained with the assembly and annotation. The core chapters provide essential insights into the main gene families that characteriz...