The Tomato Genome

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Causse, Mathilde (Editor), Giovannoni, Jim (Editor), Bouzayen, Mondher (Editor), Zouine, Mohamed (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Compendium of Plant Genomes,
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Agriculture.; Bioinformatics.; Plant genetics.; Plant breeding.; Life Sciences.; Plant Breeding/Biotechnology.; Plant Genetics & Genomics.

This book describes the strategy used for sequencing, assembling and annotating the tomato genome and presents the main characteristics of this sequence with a special focus on repeated sequences and the ancestral polyploidy events. It also includes the chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes. Tomato...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• The tomato: a seasoned traveller
• The tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L., Solanaceae) and its botanical relatives
• Gene mapping in tomato
• Molecular mapping of QTL
• Tomato resources for functional genomics
• The sequencing: how it was done and what it produced
• Chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes
• Genome assembly and application to the tomato genome
• Annotation of the tomato genome
• Repeat sequences.