Overview
- Provides diverse plant breeding technologies for researchers or graduate students
- Illustrates guides of plant molecular breeding by describing principles and applications from actual case studies
- Covers the basic concepts of plant genetics to actual cases of the isolation and functional studies of genes
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Recent progress in biotechnology and genomics has expanded the plant breeders’ horizon providing a molecular platform on the traditional plant breeding, which is now known as ‘plant molecular breeding’. Although diverse technologies for molecular breeding have been developed and applied individually for plant genetic improvement, common use in routine breeding programs seems to be limited probably due to the complexity and incomplete understanding of the technologies. This book is intended to provide a guide for researchers or graduate students involved in plant molecular breeding by describing principles and application of recently developed technologies with actual case studies for practical use.
The nine topics covered in this book include the basics on genetic analysis of agronomic traits, methods of detecting QTLs, the application of molecular markers, genomics-assisted breeding including epigenomic issues, and genome-wide association studies. Identification methods of mutagenized plants, actual case studies for the isolation and functional studies of genes, the basics of gene transfer in major crops and the procedures for commercialization of GM crops are also described.
This book would be a valuable reference for plant molecular breeders and a cornerstone for the development of new technologies in plant molecular breeding for the future.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Hee-Jong Koh; Crop science and biotechnology, college of agriculture and life sciences (CALS), Seoul National University
Dr. Seok-Yoon Kwon; Plant systems and engineering research center, Division of biosystems research, Korea research institute of bioscience and biotechnology (KRIBB)
Dr. Michael Thomson; Plant breeding, genetics, and biotechnology division (PBGB), International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Current Technologies in Plant Molecular Breeding
Book Subtitle: A Guide Book of Plant Molecular Breeding for Researchers
Editors: Hee-Jong Koh, Suk-Yoon Kwon, Michael Thomson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9996-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9995-9Published: 11 September 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0362-6Published: 29 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9996-6Published: 26 August 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 352
Number of Illustrations: 50 b/w illustrations, 122 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Plant Genetics and Genomics, Agriculture