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Genome Mapping and Molecular Breeding in Plants presents the current status of the elucidation and improvement of plant genomes of economic interest. The focus is on genetic and physical mapping, positioning, cloning, monitoring of desirable genes by molecular breeding and the most recent advances in genomics. The series comprises seven volumes: Cereals and Millets; Oilseeds; Pulses, Sugar and Tuber Crops; Fruits and Nuts; Vegetables; Technical Crops; and Forest Trees.
Oilseeds is devoted to oil-producing field crops such as soybeans, oilseed rape, peanuts, sunflowers, Indian mustard, Brassica rapa, black mustard and flax. While the grouping of economic plants is conventionally based on their agricultural purposes, several crops covered in this volume have other uses besides yielding oils. Brassica rapa is also used as a vegetable, the sunflower as an ornamental, and flax as a fibre crop. Black mustard, which is used as a condiment but is genetically close to other Brassica species, is also included here.
List of contents
Geung-Joo Lee, Xiaolei Wu, J. Grover Shannon, David A. Sleper, Henry T. Nguyen: Soybean; Rod Snowdon, Wilfried Lühs, Wolfgang Friedt: Oilseed Rape; S. L. Dwivedi, David John Bertioli, J. H. Crouch, J. F. Valls, H. D. Upadhyaya, A Favero, M. Moretzsohn, A. H. Paterson: Peanut; Norma Paniego, Ruth Heinz, Paula Fernandez, Paola Talia, Veronica Nishinakamasu, H. Esteban Hopp: Sunflower; David Edwards, Philip A. Salisbury, Wayne A. Burton, Clare J. Hopkins, Jacqueline Batley: Indian Mustard; Pablo Quijada, Jiashu Cao, Xiaowu Wang, M. Hirai, Chitta Kole: Brassica rapa; Sandip Das, Ulf Lagercrantz, Martin Lascoux: Black Mustard; Chris A. Cullis: Flax.
About the author
Chittaranjan Kole is Professor of Genetics and Plant Breeding at Allahabad Agricultural Institute in India. He is currently Visiting Professor at Clemson University. He has over two decades of teaching and research experience in molecular biology and biotechnology
Summary
Genome Mapping and Molecular Breeding in Plants presents the current status of the elucidation and improvement of plant genomes of economic interest. The focus is on genetic and physical mapping, positioning, cloning, monitoring of desirable genes by molecular breeding and the most recent advances in genomics. The series comprises seven volumes: Cereals and Millets; Oilseeds; Pulses, Sugar and Tuber Crops; Fruits and Nuts; Vegetables; Technical Crops; and Forest Trees. This volume, Oilseeds, is devoted to oil-producing field crops such as soybeans, oilseed rape, peanuts, sunflowers, Indian mustard, Brassica rapa, black mustard and flax. While the grouping of economic plants is conventionally based on their agricultural purposes, the volume covers several crops with other uses besides yielding oils: Brassica rapa, also used as a vegetable, the sunflower as an ornamental, flax as a fibre crop, and Black mustard, used as a condiment but genetically close to other Brassica species.
