Plant Genome Diversity Volume 1: Plant Genomes, their Residents, and their Evolutionary Dynamics

✍ Scribed by Lex E. Flagel, Benjamin K. Blackman (auth.), Jonathan F. Wendel, Johann Greilhuber, Jaroslav Dolezel, Ilia J. Leitch (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Wien
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 281
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this timely new 2-volume treatise, experts from around the world have banded together to produce a first-of-its-kind synopsis of the exciting and fast moving field of plant evolutionary genomics. In Volume I of Plant Genome Diversity, an update is provided on what we have learned from plant genome sequencing projects. This is followed by more focused chapters on the various genomic “residents” of plant genomes, including transposable elements, centromeres, small RNAs, and the evolutionary dynamics of genes and non-coding sequences. Attention is drawn to advances in our understanding of plant mitochondrial and plastid genomes, as well as the significance of duplication in genic evolution and the non-independent evolution among sequences in plant genomes. Finally, Volume I provides an introduction to the vibrant new frontier of plant epigenomics, describing the current state of our knowledge and the evolutionary implications of the epigenomic landscape.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
The First Ten Years of Plant Genome Sequencing and Prospects for the Next Decade....Pages 1-15
Plant Transposable Elements: Biology and Evolution....Pages 17-34
The Impact of Transposable Elements on Gene and Genome Evolution....Pages 35-58
Centromeres: Sequences, Structure, and Biology....Pages 59-70
Telomeres and Their Biology....Pages 71-82
The Biology and Dynamics of Plant Small RNAs....Pages 83-101
Variation in Rates of Molecular Evolution in Plants and Implications for Estimating Divergence Times....Pages 103-111
Conserved Noncoding Sequences in Plant Genomes....Pages 113-122
Plant Mitochondrial Genome Diversity: The Genomics Revolution....Pages 123-144
Plastid Genome Diversity....Pages 145-154
Duplications and Turnover in Plant Genomes....Pages 155-169
Concerted Evolution of Multigene Families and Homoeologous Recombination....Pages 171-193
Synteny and Genomic Rearrangements....Pages 195-207
The Variation of Base Composition in Plant Genomes....Pages 209-235
Chromatin Modifications in Plants....Pages 237-255
Evolutionary Significance of Epigenetic Variation....Pages 257-274
Back Matter....Pages 275-279

✦ Subjects

Plant Genetics & Genomics; Evolutionary Biology; Plant Sciences