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Advances in Forage and Turf Biotechnology in China

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Molecular Breeding of Forage and Turf

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With the development and application of new technologies, biotechnology of forage and turf species has been rapid development in recent years in China, mainly in the field of omics and bioinformatics, new gene discovery and genetic engineering, and molecular marker technology. Omics and bioinformatics are essential to understand the molecular systems that underlie various plant functions. The rapid development of next-generation sequencing technology (NGS) makes genomics research undergoes a tremendous change, and promotes the development and application of bioinformatics tools. In recent years, along with the uses of genomics and bioinformatics tools, the studies of forage and turf species have developed rapidly, which reflected mainly in genomics and transcriptomics. The development of omics resources has progressed to address particular biological properties of individual forage and turf species, and also provide resources to explore new genes including new function or new sequence. The application of reverse genetics in some forage species by construction of mutant library also accelerated the new gene discovery. Genetic engineering in forage and turf species mainly focused on plant genetic improvement of biotic and abiotic stresses, quality, and transgenic vaccine. Environmental safety and broad-spectrum resistance were worth considering when the genetic engineering vector was constructed. Research in the field of molecular marker technology has been developed from the first- and second-generation to the third-generation. Molecular markers have been applied to analyze genetic diversity, marker-assisted breeding, genetic linkage map construction, QTL mapping, and germplasm or variety fingerprints. From these perspectives, we provide this review of the emerging aspects of forage and turf species researches in biotechnology based on the recent technological advances.

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This work was supported by National Basic Research Program of China (“973”, 2014CB138704), the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (“863”, 2011AA100209).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

    Shuangyan Chen, Yongzhen Pang & Gongshe Liu

  2. Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 100081, Beijing, P. R. China

    Yanmin Wu & Meiliang Zhou

  3. State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, 100193, Beijing, P. R. China

    Tao Wang & Jiangli Dong

  4. State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-ecosystems, College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, 730020, Lanzhou, P. R. China

    Suomin Wang & Aike Bao

  5. Department of Grassland Science, Animal Science and Technology College, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an, P. R. China

    Xinquan Zhang & Linkai Huang

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Chen, S. et al. (2015). Advances in Forage and Turf Biotechnology in China. In: Budak, H., Spangenberg, G. (eds) Molecular Breeding of Forage and Turf. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08714-6_10

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