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| Varying Form of Title: | Crop productivity, food security and nutritional quality
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| Other authors / contributors: | Tuberosa, R. (Roberto), editor.
Graner, Andreas, editor.
Frison, E. A., editor.
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| ISBN: | 9789400775756
940077575X
9400775741
9789400775749
9789400775749
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| Notes: | Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed Jan. 9, 2014).
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| Summary: | The future of food security will increasingly rely on more extensive exploration and effective exploitation of plant genetic resources. The remarkable progress in plant genomics, sequencing and bioinformatics offers unprecedented opportunities for mining germplasm collections, mapping and cloning loci of interest, identifying novel alleles and deploying them for breeding purposes. Genomics of Plant Genetic Resources presents a state-of-the-art collection of highly interdisciplinary articles describing how genomics improves our capacity to characterize and harness natural and artificially induced variation in order to boost crop productivity and provide consumers with high-quality food. In the past decade, the appreciation of the value of biodiversity has grown rapidly, mainly due to the increased awareness of the pivotal role that plant genetic resources plays for securing the supply of plant-derived products. Meeting the challenges posed by climate change and the needs of the burgeoning population will require a quantum leap in crop productivity, which will only be possible through the integration of genomics-based approaches with extant breeding programs. Additionally, the new selection paradigm ushered in by genomics-assisted breeding will facilitate allele mining in orphan crops and underutilized species, previously less accessible via conventional approaches. The unifying picture that emerges from this book unequivocally shows the pivotal role played by genomics in order to mine germplasm collections, elucidate gene function, identify superior alleles and, ultimately, release improved cultivars.
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| Other form: | Print version: Genomics of plant genetic resources. Volume 2, Crop productivity, food security and nutritional quality. Dordrecht, [Netherlands] : Springer, ©2014 xix, 515 pages 9789400775749
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