Polyploid and Hybrid Genomics (Chen/Polyploid) || Integrating “Omics” Data and Expression QTL to Understand Maize Heterosis

✍ Scribed by Chen, Z. Jeffrey; Birchler, James A.

• Book ID: 120370986
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 259 KB
• Edition: 1
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 047096037X
• DOI: 10.1002/9781118552872.ch5

✦ Synopsis

Polyploidy plays an important role in biological diversity, trait improvement, and plant species survival. Understanding the evolutionary phenomenon of polyploidy is a key challenge for plant and crop scientists. This book is made up of contributions from leading researchers in the field from around the world, providing a truly global review of the subject. Providing broad-ranging coverage, and up-to-date information from some of the world’s leading researchers, this book is an invaluable resource for geneticists, plant and crop scientists, and evolutionary biologists.