Genomics of Plant Genetic Resources

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Harnessing Plant Genetic Diversity for Enhancing Crop Production and Its Sustainability

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Genetics and Genomics of Flowering Time Regulation in Sugar Beet

      • Siegbert Melzer, Andreas E. Müller, Christian Jung

      Pages 3-26

   3. Mining the Genus Solanum for Increasing Disease Resistance

      • Jack H. Vossen, Kwang-Ryong Jo, Ben Vosman

      Pages 27-46

   4. Dissection of Potato Complex Traits by Linkage and Association Genetics as Basis for Developing Molecular Diagnostics in Breeding Programs

      • Christiane Gebhardt, Claude Urbany, Benjamin Stich

      Pages 47-85

   5. Introgression Libraries with Wild Relatives of Crops

      • Silvana Grandillo

      Pages 87-122

   6. Microphenomics for Interactions of Barley with Fungal Pathogens

      • Dimitar Douchkov, Tobias Baum, Alexander Ihlow, Patrick Schweizer, Udo Seiffert

      Pages 123-148

   7. Genomics of Low-Temperature Tolerance for an Increased Sustainability of Wheat and Barley Production

      • N. Pecchioni, K. Kosová, P. Vítámvás, I.T. Prášil, J.A. Milc, E. Francia et al.

      Pages 149-183

   8. Bridging Conventional Breeding and Genomics for A More Sustainable Wheat Production

      • P. Stephen Baenziger, Ali Bakhsh, Aaron Lorenz, Harkamal Walia

      Pages 185-209

   9. Genetic Dissection of Aluminium Tolerance in the Triticeae

      • Harsh Raman, Perry Gustafson

      Pages 211-231

   10. Maintaining Food Value of Wild Rice (Zizania palustris L.) Using Comparative Genomics

       • Alexander L. Kahler, Anthony J. Kern, Raymond A. Porter, Ronald L. Phillips

       Pages 233-248

3. Genomics-Assisted Crop Improvement for Food Security

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 249-249

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   2. Genomics-Assisted Allele Mining and its Integration Into Rice Breeding

      • Toshio Yamamoto, Yusaku Uga, Masahiro Yano

      Pages 251-265

   3. New Insights Arising from Genomics for Enhancing Rice Resistance Against the Blast Fungus

      • Elsa Ballini, Jean-Benoit Morel

      Pages 267-289

   4. Enhancing Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants by Modulating Properties of Stress Responsive Transcription Factors

      • Maria Hrmova, Sergiy Lopato

      Pages 291-316

   5. The Borlaug Global Rust Initiative: Reducing the Genetic Vulnerability of Wheat to Rust

      • Sarah Davidson Evanega, Ravi P. Singh, Ronnie Coffman, Michael O. Pumphrey

      Pages 317-331

   6. Genomes, Chromosomes and Genes of the Wheatgrass Genus Thinopyrum: the Value of their Transfer into Wheat for Gains in Cytogenomic Knowledge and Sustainable Breeding

      • Carla Ceoloni, Ljiljana Kuzmanović, Andrea Gennaro, Paola Forte, Debora Giorgi, Maria Rosaria Grossi et al.

      Pages 333-358

   7. Identification and Implementation of Resistance: Genomics-Assisted use of Genetic Resources for Breeding Against Powdery Mildew and Stagonospora Nodorum Blotch in Wheat

      • Liselotte L. Selter, Margarita Shatalina, Jyoti Singla, Beat Keller

      Pages 359-383

4. Genomics-Assisted Crop Improvement for Nutritional Quality

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 384-384

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   2. Breeding for Apple (Malus × domestica Borkh.) Fruit Quality Traits in the Genomics Era

      • Satish Kumar, Richard K. Volz, David Chagné, Susan Gardiner

      Pages 387-416

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.

• Biodiversity
• Food security
• Genomics
• Marker-assisted selection
• Plant Genetic Resources

• Agricultural Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

  Roberto Tuberosa

• Genebank, IPK, Gatersleben, Germany

  Andreas Graner

• Bioversity International, Rome, Italy

  Emile Frison

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