Genomics of Plant Genetic Resources: Volume 2. Crop Productivity, Food Security and Nutritional Quality (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789400775749)

Our lives and well being intimately depend on the exploitation of the plant genetic resources available to our breeding programs. Therefore, more extensive exploration and effective exploitation of plant genetic resources are essential prerequisites for the release of improved cultivars. Accordingly, the remarkable progress in genomics approaches and more recently in 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. This book collects 48 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. This book will be an invaluable reference for all those interested in managing, mining and harnessing the genetic richness of plant genetic resources.

Author: Roberto Tuberosa
ISBN-10: 9400775741
ISBN-13: 9789400775749
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 01/15/2014
Pages: 515
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.55lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.30d