This volume covers the genetics, genomics, and breeding of peanuts, addressing germplasm collections and genetic resources, diversity, and association mapping; classical and molecular cytogenetics; molecular markers, genetic maps, and quantitative trait loci in molecular breeding; the peanut genome structure; transcriptonomics; advances in proteomics research; transgenic interventions in peanut crop improvement; and applications of bioinformatics tools to genetic mapping and diversity. The 10 chapters are by an international group of crop, genetics, and other researchers. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Peanut, an amphidiploid, is an important food and oil crop and has an interesting evolutionary history. This book provides a glimpse of the advances in genetic resources and genomics research of peanut made during the last decade. It contains an overview of germplasm, advances in genetic and genomic resources, genetic and trait mapping, proteomic and transcriptomic analyses, functional and comparative genomics studies, and molecular breeding applications. This book should prove useful to students, teachers, and young researchers as a ready reference to the latest information on peanut genetics and genomics.
