Foreword to the Series: Genomics-Assisted Crop Improvement .... vii
Foreword ....................................................... xi
Preface ...................................................... xiii
Color Plates ................................................... xv
1. Genomics-Assisted Crop Improvement: An Overview ............. 1
Rajeev K. Varshney and Roberto Tuberosa
2. Genic Molecular Markers in Plants: Development and
Applications ............................................... 13
Rajeev K. Varshney, Thudi Mahendar, Ramesh K.
Aggarwal and Andreas Bonier
3. Molecular Breeding: Maximizing the Exploitation of
Genetic Diversity .......................................... 31
Anker P. Sorensen, Jeroen Stuurman, Jeroen
Rouppe van der Voort and Johan Pelentan
4. Modeling QTL Effects and MAS in Plant Breeding ............. 57
Mark Cooper, Dean W. Podlich and Lang Luo
5. Applications of Linkage Disequilibrium and
Association Mapping in Crop Plants ......................... 97
Elhan S. Ersoz, Jianming Yu and Edward
S. Buckler
6. Exploitation of Natural Biodiversity through Genomics ..... 121
Silvana Grandillo, Steve D. Tanksley and
Dani Zamir
7. Genomeless Genomics in Crop Improvement ................... 151
Kean Jin Lim, Sini Junttila, Vidal Fey
and Stephen Rudd
8. Comparative Genomics of Cereals ........................... 177
Jéróme Salse and Catherine Feuillet
9. Cloning QTLs in Plants .................................... 207
Silvio Salvi and Roberto Tuberosa
10. Use of Serial Analysis of Gene Expression (SAGE)
for Transcript Profiling in Plants ........................ 227
Prakash C. Sharma, Hideo Matsumura and Ryohei
Terauchi
11. Genetical Genomics: Successes and Prospects in Plants ..... 245
Marias Kirst and Qibin Yn
12. Analysis of Salt Stress-Related Transcriptome
Fingerprints from Diverse Plant Species ................... 267
Ashwani Pareek, Sneh L. Singla-Pareek, Sudhir
K. Sopory and Anil Grover
13. Auxin and Cytokinin Signaling Component Genes and
their Potential for Crop Improvement ...................... 289
Jitendra P. Khurana, Mukesh Jain and
Akhilesh K. Tyagi
14. Statistical Advances in Functional Genomics ............... 315
Rebecca W. Doerge
15. TILLING and EcoTILLING for Crop Improvement ............... 333
Bradley J. Till, Luca Camai and Steven Henikojf
16. Characterization of Epigenetic Biomarkers Using New
Molecular Approaches ................................... 351
Marie-Wéronique Gentil and Stéphane Maury
Appendix I. - List of Contributors ............................ 371
Appendix II.- List of Reviewers ............................... 379
Index ......................................................... 381
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