Foreword to the Series: Genomics-Assisted Crop Improvement .... vii
Foreword ....................................................... xi
Preface ...................................................... xiii
Color Plates ................................................... xv
1. Microsatellite and SNP Markers in Wheat Breeding ............ 1
Martin W. Ganal and Marion S. Röder
2. Molecular Markers and QTL Analysis for Grain Quality
Improvement in Wheat ....................................... 25
Domenico Lafiandra, Maria Corinna Sanguineti,
Marco Maccaferri and Enzo DeAmbrogio
3. Molecular Approaches and Breeding Strategies for
Drought Tolerance in Barley ................................ 51
Michael Baum, Maria Von Korff, Peiguo Guo, Berhane
Lakew, Aladdin Hamwieh, Samer Lababidi, Sripada
M. Udupa, Haitham Sayed, Wafa Choumane and Stefania
Grando and Salvatore Ceccarelit
4. Molecular Markers for Gene Pyramiding and Disease
Resistance Breeding in Barley .............................. 81
Wolfgang Fried and Frank Ordon
5. Cloning Genes and QTLs for Disease Resistance in
Cereals ................................................... 103
Beat Keller, Stéphane Bieri, Eligio Bossolini and
Nabila Yahiaoui
6. Maize Breeding and Genomics: An Historical Overview
and Perspectives .......................................... 129
Michael Lee
7. Molecular Markers and Marker-Assisted Selection in Rice ... 147
David J. Mackill
8. Application of Genomics for Molecular Breeding in Rice .... 169
Nagendra K. Singh and Trilochan Mohapatra
9. Marker-Assisted Selection in Sorghum ...................... 187
Gebisa Ejeta and Joseph E. Knoll
10. Molecular Genetics and Breeding of Grain Legume
Crops for the Semi-Arid Tropics ........................... 207
Rajeev K. Varshney, David A. Hoisington, Hari
D. Upadhyaya, Pooran M. Gaur, Shyam N. Nigam,
Kulbhushan Saxena, Vincent Vadez, Niroj K. Sethy,
Sabhyata Bhatia and Rupakula Aruna, M.V.C. Gowda and
Nagendm K. Singh
11. Genomics Approaches to Soybean Improvement ................ 243
Tri D. Vuong, Xiaolei Wu, MD S. Pathan, Babu
Valliyodan and Henry T. Nguyen
12. Application of Genomics to Forage Crop Breeding for
Quality Traits ............................................ 281
Thomas Lübberstedt
13. Molecular Mapping. Marker-Assisted Selection
and Map-Based Cloning in Tomato ........................... 307
Majid R. Foolad
14. Genomics for Improvement of Rosaceae Temperate Tree
Fruit ..................................................... 357
Pere Arús and Susan Gardiner
15. DNA Markers: Development and Application for Genetic
Improvement of Coffee ..................................... 399
Prasad S. Hendre and Ramesh K. Aggarwal
16. Genomics of Root Nodulation in Soybean .................... 435
Kyujung Van, Moon Young Kim and Suk-Ha Lee
17. Genomics of Wheat Domestication ........................... 453
Carlo Pozzi and Francesco Salamini
38. Transcriptome Analysis of The Sugarcane Genome for Crop
Improvement ............................................... 483
Paulo Arruda and Thais Rezende Silva
Appendix I. - List of Contributors ............................ 495
Appendix II.- List of Reviewers ............................... 503
Index ......................................................... 505
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