Molecular Techniques in Crop Improvement

Preface.- A. Plant Breeding in the genomics era:1.QTL analysis for plant breeding; Maria J. Asins, Guillermo P. Bernet, Irene Villalta and Emilio A. Carbonelli.- 2.Comparative genomics in crop plants; Mehboob-ur-Rahman and Andrew H. Paterson.- 3.Functional genomics for crop improvement; Seedhabadee Ganeshan, Pallavi Sharma and Ravindra N. Chibbar.- 4.Bioinformatics tools for crop research and breeding; Jayashree B and Dave Hoisington.- B. Molecular markers and their application:5.Gene-based marker systems in plants: high throughput approaches for gene discovery and genotyping; Rajeev K Varshney.- 6.Automation of DNA marker analysis for molecular breeding in crops; Christophe Dayteg, Stine Tuvesson.- 7.Pyramiding transgenes for enhancing tolerance to abiotic and biotic stresses; Raveendran Muthurajan and Ponnuswami Balasubramanian.- 8.Molecular markers for breeding disease resistance; Ana M. Torres.- 9.Molecular markers based approaches for drought tolerance; Deepmala Sehgal and Rattan Yada.- 10. Molecular markers for characterizing and conserving crop plant germplasm; G. Barcaccia.- C. Genomics:11.Rice Genomics -Gateway To Future Cereal Improvement; Narayana M. Upadhyaya And Elizabeth S. Dennis.- 12.Genomics for wheat improvement; Michael G. Francki.- 13.TILLING for mutations in model plants and crops; Zerihun Tadele, Chikelu Mba and Bradley J. Till.- 14.Microarray analysis for studying abiotic stress responses in plants; Motoaki Seki, Masanori Okamoto, Akihiro Matsui, Jong-Myong Kim, Yukio Kurihara, Junko Ishida, Taeko Morosawa, Makiko Kawashima, Taiko Kim To and Kazuo Shinozaki.- 15.Roles of microRNAs in plant abiotic stress; Ricky Lewis, Venugopal Mendu, David McNear and Guiliang Tang.- 16.Molecular Tools For Enhancing Salinity Tolerance In Plants; Jesus Cuartero, Maria C. Bolarin, Vicente Moreno And Benito Pineda.- 17.DNA Microarray As Part Of A Genomic-Assisted Breeding Approach-Gateway To Improve Nutritional Quality Of Barley; Eva Vincze And SteveBowra.- 18.Unravelling Gene Function Through Mutagenesis; Andrea Hricová, Pedro Robles And Víctor Quesada.- 19.Techniques Of Plant Proteomics; Ludovít Skultéty, Maxym Danchenko, Anna Pretová And Martin Hajduch.- 20.Metabolomics: Novel Tool For Studying Complex Biological Systems; Federica Maltese And Robert Verpoorte.- 21.Transcriptomic analysis of multiple environmental stresses in plants; Niranjani Jambunathan, Michael Puckette and Ramamurthy Mahalingam.- D. Transgenic Technologies:22.Marker-free targeted transformation; Hiroyasu Ebinuma and Kazuya Nanto.- 23.Promoter trapping in plants using T-DNA mutagenesis; T. Srinivasan and Dipnarayan Sah.- 24.Plant genome engineering using zinc finger nucleases; Sandeep Kumar and William F. Thompson.- 25.CISGENESIS- Next step in classical plant breeding; Evert Jacobsen and Henk J. Schouten.- 26.Gene stacking; E. Douglas and C. Halpin.- 27.Gene Silencing; Sunee Kertbundit, Miloslav Jurícek and Timothy C. Hall.- 28.Plant RNAi and crop improvement; Masayuki Isshiki and Hiroaki Kodama.- 29.Metabolomics in fruit development; Kati Hanhineva and Asaph Aharoni.- 30.Genetic engineering in floriculture; Yoshikazu Tanaka and Ryutaro Aida.- 31.Transgenesis and genomics in forage crops; Toshihiko Yamada, Ken-ichi Tamura, Xun Wang, and Yukiko Aoyagi.-