Overview
- The first-ever book to concentrate on the genomes of wild rice species
- Focuses on the untapped reservoir of agronomically important traits in wild Oryza species
- Explores both theoretical and practical aspects of rice breeding
Part of the book series: Compendium of Plant Genomes (CPG)
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
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.Â
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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Wild Oryza Genomes
Editors: Tapan K. Mondal, Robert J. Henry
Series Title: Compendium of Plant Genomes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71997-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-71996-2Published: 01 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10144-2Published: 22 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-71997-9Published: 15 February 2018
Series ISSN: 2199-4781
Series E-ISSN: 2199-479X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 300
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 54 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Genetics and Genomics, Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Agriculture