Beschreibung:
Trees that are indispensably supportive to human life pose a formidable challenge to breed them to suit to human needs. From soft drinks to breweries to beverages to oil to tires, the value added products from trees give a spectrum of products to human kind. While attempts to tap these resources through conventional breeding are underway, the quick and elegant way of manipulating the genetic systems at the genome level is an essential chapter of modern science. Books featuring genomics of tree crops are few, and genomics is such a science that changes rapidly. Genomics of Tree Crops is an earnest attempt towards compiling genomics of tree crops.
The state of the art: Molecular Genomics and Marker-Assisted-Breeding.- Bioinformatics techniques for understanding and analyzing tree gene expression data.- Functional genomics of flowering time in trees.- Gene flow, spatial structure, local adaptation and assisted migration in trees.- Genetic Transformation of Fruit Trees.- Genomics of Temperate Fruit Trees.- Genomics of Tropical Fruit Tree Crops.- Papaya Genome and Genomics.- Genomics of Hevea rubber.- Coconut, Date and Oil Palm Genomics.