Botany

Plant Genome Diversity Volume 1

Jaroslav Dolezel , Johann Greilhuber , Ilia J. Leitch , Jonathan Wendel

In this timely new 2-volume treatise, experts from around the world have banded together to produce a first-of-its-kind synopsis of the exciting and fast moving field of plant evolutionary genomics.In Volume I of Plant Genome Diversity, an update is provided on what we...

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Arsenic & Rice

Andrew A. Meharg , Fang-Jie Zhao

Rice is the staple food for half of the world’s population. Consumption of rice is the major exposure route globally to the class one, non-threshold carcinogen inorganic arsenic. This book explains the sources of arsenic to paddy soils and the biogeochemical processes...

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Cotton

Usha Barwale Zehr

The food, feed, ?ber, and fuel needs of the changing world pose the challenge of doubling or tripling of world food, feed, and ?ber production by the year 2050 to meet the needs of a 11 billion global population. In addition, the dramatic changes in food prices in the...

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Genetics and Genomics of the Triticeae

Catherine Feuillet , Gary J. Muehlbauer

Sequencing of the model plant genomes such as those of A. thaliana and rice has revolutionized our understanding of plant biology but it has yet to translate into the improvement of major crop species such as maize, wheat, or barley. Moreover, the comparative genomic...

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Genetics and Genomics of Rosaceae

Kevin M. Folta , Susan E. Gardiner

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Petunia

Tom Gerats , Judy Strommer

Petunia belongs to the family of the Solanaceae and as such is closely related to important crop species like tomato, potato, eggplant, pepper and tobacco. With around 35 species described it is one of the smaller genera and among those there are two groups of species...

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