Overview
- Provides the molecular basics and techniques for novel plant breeding strategies
- Addresses plant molecular geneticists as well as plant breeders in the public and private sector
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry (AGRICULTURE, volume 55)
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Basics
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Specific Crops
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Breeding Strategies and Silviculture Based on Markers
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About this book
Successful release of new and better crop varieties increasingly requires genomics and molecular biology. This volume presents basic information on plant molecular marker techniques from marker location up to gene cloning. The text includes a description of technical approaches in genome analysis such as comparison of marker systems, positional cloning, and array techniques in 19 crop plants. A special section focuses on converting this knowledge into general and specific breeding strategies, particularly in relation to biotic stress. Theory and practice of marker assisted selection for QTL, gene pyramiding and the future of MAS are summarized and discussed for maize, wheat, and soybean. Furthermore, approaches in silviculture on the examples of Fagus, Populus, Eucalyptus, Picea and Abies are presented. The volume ends with a comprehensive review of the patents relevant for using molecular markers and marker assisted selection.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Molecular Marker Systems in Plant Breeding and Crop Improvement
Editors: Horst Lörz, Gerhard Wenzel
Series Title: Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b137756
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-74006-3Published: 04 October 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-26538-2Published: 01 November 2008
Series ISSN: 0934-943X
Series E-ISSN: 2512-3696
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 478
Number of Illustrations: 37 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Agriculture, Plant Genetics and Genomics, Plant Sciences, Forestry, Biotechnology, Plant Pathology