The Oil Palm Genome, 1st ed. 2020 Compendium of Plant Genomes Series

This book compiles the fundamental advances resulting from of oil-palm genome and transcriptome sequencing, and describes the challenges faced and strategies applied in sequencing, assembling and annotating oil palm genome sequences. The availability of genome and transcriptome data has made the mining of a high number of new molecular markers useful for genetic diversity as well as marker-trait association studies and the book presents high-throughput genotyping platforms, which allow the detection of QTL regions associated with interesting oil palm traits such as oil unsaturation and yield components using classical genetic and association mapping approaches. Lastly, it also presents the discovery of major genes governing economically important traits of the oil palm.

Covering the history of oil palm expansion, classical and molecular cytogenetics, improvements based on wild and advanced genetic materials, and the science of oil palm breeding, the book is a valuable resource for scientists involved in plant genetic research.

Compiles the fundamental advances resulting from oil palm genome and transcriptome sequencing

Describes the challenges faced and strategies applied in sequencing, assembling and annotating the oil palm genome sequences leading to discoveries of major genes governing economically important oil palm traits of the oil palm

Discusses the molecular evolutionary analysis of oil palm genetic populations using markers developed from genomic information

Designates the realization of oil palm diseases out of the proteomics and metabolomics approaches

Includes chapters on the history of oil palm expansion, classical and molecular cytogenetics, improvement efforts based on wild and advanced genetic materials and the science of oil palm breeding