The Kiwifruit Genome

This book describes the basic botanical features of kiwifruit and its wild relatives, reports on the steps that led to its genome sequencing, and discusses the results obtained with the assembly and annotation. The core chapters provide essential insights into the main gene families that characterize this species as a crop, including the genes controlling sugar and starch metabolism, pigment biosynthesis and degradation, the ascorbic-acid pathway, fruit softening and postharvest metabolism, allergens, and resistance to pests and diseases.
The book offers a valuable reference guide for taxonomists, geneticists and horticulturists. Further, since information gained from the genome sequence is extraordinarily useful in assessing the breeding value of individuals based on whole-genome scans, it will especially benefit plant breeders. Accordingly, chapters are included that focus on gene introgression from wildrelatives and genome-based breeding.

List of contents

Botanical description.- Genetic Resources.- World economicimportance.- Cytoplasmic DNA in Actinidia.- Cytology, ploidy and ploidymanipulation.- Reproductive Biology.- Markers, maps, and marker-assistedselection.- The Kiwifruit Genome.- Repetitive sequences.- Gene familyprediction and annotation.

Summary

This book describes the basic botanical features of kiwifruit and its wild relatives, reports on the steps that led to its genome sequencing, and discusses the results obtained with the assembly and annotation. The core chapters provide essential insights into the main gene families that characterize this species as a crop, including the genes controlling sugar and starch metabolism, pigment biosynthesis and degradation, the ascorbic-acid pathway, fruit softening and postharvest metabolism, allergens, and resistance to pests and diseases.
The book offers a valuable reference guide for taxonomists, geneticists and horticulturists. Further, since information gained from the genome sequence is extraordinarily useful in assessing the breeding value of individuals based on whole-genome scans, it will especially benefit plant breeders. Accordingly, chapters are included that focus on gene introgression from wildrelatives and genome-based breeding.

Product details

• Assisted by: Allan Ross Ferguson (Editor), Ross Ferguson (Editor), Hong-We Huang (Editor), Hong-Wen Huang (Editor), Allan Ross Ferguson (Editor), Raffaele Testolin (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9783319322728
• ISBN: 978-3-31-932272-8
• No. of pages: 269
• Dimensions: 182 mm x 262 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 672 g
• Illustrations: XV, 269 p. 55 illus., 38 illus. in color.
• Series: Compendium of Plant Genomes; Compendium of Plant Genomes
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Botany; Biotechnologie, Botanik und Pflanzenwissenschaften, B, Agrarwissenschaften, Genetik (nicht-medizinisch), biotechnology, Agriculture, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Botany & plant sciences, Agricultural science, Genetics (non-medical), Plant Genetics, Plant Genetics and Genomics, Plant breeding, Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Plant Biotechnology