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...

Table of Contents:

• Botanical description
• Genetic Resources
• World economic importance
• Cytoplasmic DNA in Actinidia
• Cytology, ploidy and ploidy manipulation
• Reproductive Biology
• Markers, maps, and marker-assisted selection
• The Kiwifruit Genome
• Repetitive sequences
• Gene family prediction and annotation.