Abstract
Sugarcane is being considered one the most important crops to meet the demand of the world bionergy needs. However the productivity in commercial plantations around the world is far way from its potential of about 300 tons/ha. Sugarcane breeding did not take advantage yet of the best plant breeding technologies, mainly because constrains imposed by the high polyploid nature of its genome. Even transgenic technologies would face difficulties because of the complex behaviour of introduced genes regarding the chromosome where the gene is inserted. One important resource to overcome at least part of these difficulties is the availability of a large collection of sugarcane Expressed Sequence Tags. The transcriptome information has allowed the identification of genes involved in biotic and abiotic stress response, disease resistance and sucrose accumulation. In additioncomparative mapping has allowed the identification in sugarcane disease resistance genes already mapped in sorghum and maize. In this chapter we discuss the use of transcriptome resources for sugarcane improvement.
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Arruda, P., Silva, T.R. (2007). Transcriptome Analysis of The Sugarcane Genome For Crop Improvement. In: Varshney, R.K., Tuberosa, R. (eds) Genomics-Assisted Crop Improvement. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6297-1_18
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