- The first-ever book to concentrate on the genomes of wild rice speciesFocuses on the untapped reservoir of agronomically important traits in wild Oryza speciesExplores both theoretical and practical aspects of rice breeding
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- About this book
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This book focuses on the latest genome sequencing of the 25 wild Oryza species, public and private genomic resources, and their impact on genetic improvement research. It also addresses the untapped reservoir of agronomically important traits in wild Oryza species. Rice is a model crop plant that is frequently used to address several basic questions in plant biology, yet its wild relatives offer an untapped source of agronomically important alleles that are absent in the rice gene pool.
The genus Oryza is extremely diverse, as indicated by a wide range of chromosome numbers, different ploidy levels and genome sizes. After a 13-year gap from the first sequencing of rice in the 2002, the genomes of 11 wild Oryza species have now been sequenced and more will follow. These vast genomic resources are extremely useful for addressing several basic questions on the origin of the genus, evolutionary relationships between the species, domestication, and environmental adaptation, and also help to substantiate molecular breeding and pre-breeding work to introgress useful characters horizontally from wild species into cultivated rice.
- Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Wild Relatives of Rice: A Valuable Genetic Resource for Genomics and Breeding Research
Pages 1-25
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Informatics of Wild Relatives of Rice
Pages 27-40
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Evolutionary Relationships Among the Oryza Species
Pages 41-54
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Oryza alta Swollen
Pages 55-59
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Oryza australiensis Domin
Pages 61-66
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Wild Oryza Genomes
- Editors
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- Tapan Kumar Mondal
- Robert Henry
- Series Title
- Compendium of Plant Genomes
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-71997-9
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-71997-9
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-71996-2
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-10144-2
- Series ISSN
- 2199-4781
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXI, 300
- Number of Illustrations
- 12 b/w illustrations, 54 illustrations in colour
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