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Genomics of Plant Genetic Resources || The Use of Molecular Marker Data to Assist in the Determination of Essentially Derived Varieties

✍ Scribed by Tuberosa, Roberto; Graner, Andreas; Frison, Emile


Book ID
121452335
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
2013
Tongue
Dutch
Weight
782 KB
Edition
2014
Category
Article
ISBN
9400775725

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✦ Synopsis


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.