Overview
- Offers essential insights into the latest advances in genome sequencing and analysis
- Demonstrates how scientific findings from plant genomics can be used to improve plant breeding
- Will be of interest to scientists working in the fields of plant taxonomy, genetics, horticulture, and especially crop breeding
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Compendium of Plant Genomes (CPG)
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About this book
This book describes the basic botanical features of kiwifruit and its wild relatives, reports on the steps that led to its genome sequencing, and discusses the results obtained with the assembly and annotation. The core chapters provide essential insights into the main gene families that characterize this species as a crop, including the genes controlling sugar and starch metabolism, pigment biosynthesis and degradation, the ascorbic-acid pathway, fruit softening and postharvest metabolism, allergens, and resistance to pests and diseases.
The book offers a valuable reference guide for taxonomists, geneticists and horticulturists. Further, since information gained from the genome sequence is extraordinarily useful in assessing the breeding value of individuals based on whole-genome scans, it will especially benefit plant breeders. Accordingly, chapters are included that focus on gene introgression from wildrelatives and genome-based breeding.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Kiwifruit Genome
Editors: Raffaele Testolin, Hong-Wen Huang, Allan Ross Ferguson
Series Title: Compendium of Plant Genomes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32274-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-32272-8Published: 13 May 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81239-7Published: 07 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-32274-2Published: 02 May 2016
Series ISSN: 2199-4781
Series E-ISSN: 2199-479X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 269
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 38 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Genetics and Genomics, Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Agriculture