Plant breeding in the Omics era /

Plant breeding in the Omics era /

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Author / Creator:	Ríos, Rodomiro Ortiz, author.
Imprint:	Cham : Springer, [2015]
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Plant breeding. Plant genetic engineering. Plant breeding. Plant genetic engineering. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11096122

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ISBN:	9783319205328 3319205323 9783319205311 3319205315
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 22, 2015).
Summary:	This book provides analysis of plant breeding and its role for producing high-yielding cultivars that increase farming profitability and sustainability. This work analyzes the past and present of plant breeding, while providing research that investigates the future of crop improvement. Plant breeding today, as it was before, depends on crop biodiversity and its sustainable use, which can be further facilitated by advances in omics and bioinformatics. It starts with assessing plant genetic resources (wild species, landraces, obsolete cultivars, genetic stocks) variation aiming to enhance the cultigen pool. Research on genetics-aided by current omic tools- should lead to designing a knowledge-based plant breeding, which could bring further genetic gains in the breeding pools. Plant breeding, however, will increasingly require pursuing a holistic interdisciplinary approach based on integrated system-oriented thinking.
Other form:	Original 9783319205311 3319205315
Standard no.:	10.1007/978-3-319-20532-8

Table of Contents:

Introduction to Plant Breeding
Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
Inbred Development
Population Improvement
Heterosis and Inter-Specific Hybridization
Mutations and Epigenetics
Genetic Engineering and Transgenic Breeding
DNA Sequencing, other Omics and Synthetic Biology
Breeding Self-fertilizing Plants: From Inbred to Hybrid Cultivars
Breeding Open Pollinated, Hybrid and Transgenic Outcrossing Species
Polyploidy and Plant Breeding
Seeds, Clones and Perennials
Diversity, Intellectual Property and Plant Variety Protection.