Genomics of Plant Genetic Resources, 2014 Volume 2. Crop productivity, food security and nutritional quality

Harnessing plant genetic diversity for enhancing crop production and its sustainability.- Genetics and genomics of flowering time regulation in sugar beet; S. Melzer.- Mining the genus Solanum for increasing disease resistance; J.H. Vossen.- Dissection of potato complex traits by linkage and association genetics as basis for developing molecular diagnostics in breeding programs; C. Gebhardt.- Introgression libraries with wild relatives of crops; S. Grandillo.- High-throughput phenomics tools for interactions of barley with fungal pathogens; D.Douchkov.- Genomics of low-temperature tolerance for an increased sustainability of wheat and barley production; N.Pecchioni.- Bridging conventional breeding and genomics for a more sustainable wheat production; S. Baenziger.- Genetic Dissection of Aluminium Tolerance in the Triticeae; H. Raman.- Maintaining Food Value of Wild Rice (Zizania palustris L.) Using Comparative Genomics; A.L. Kahler.- Genomics-assisted crop improvement for food security.- Genomics-assisted allele mining and its integration into rice breeding; T. Yamamoto.- New insights arising from genomics for enhancing rice resistance against the blast fungus; E. Ballini.- Enhancing abiotic stress tolerance in plants by modulating properties of stress responsive transcription factors; M. Hrmova.- The Borlaug Global Rust Initiative: Reducing the genetic vulnerability of wheat to rust; S. Davidson Evanega.- Genomes, chromosomes and genes of the wheatgrass genus Thinopyrum: the value of their transfer into wheat for gains in cytogenomic knowledge and sustainable breeding; C. Ceoloni.- Identification and implementation of resistance: Genomics-assisted use of genetic resources for breeding against powdery mildew and Stagonospora nodorum blotch in wheat; L.L. Selter.- G6nomics-assised crop improvement for nutritional quality.- Breeding for apple (Malus × domestica Borkh.) fruit quality traits in the genomics era; S. Kumar.- Enhancing nutritional quality in crops via genomics approaches; M.S. Andersson.- N. Genomics of mineral nutrient biofortification: calcium, iron and zinc; O.A.Hoekenga.- Optimising the content and composition of dietary fibre in wheat grain for end-use quality; P.R. Shewry.- TILLING for improved starch composition in wheat; S. Sestili.- Molecular Breeding for Quality Protein Maize (QPM); R. Babu. Index.

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