Weedy and invasive plant genomics
By: edited by C. Neal Stewart.
Contributors: Stewart, C. Neal.
Edition: 1st. ed.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Ames, Iowa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813822884
Subjects: Weeds -- Genetics; Weeds -- Germplasm resources; Weeds -- Biological control; Invasive plants -- Genetics; Invasive plants -- Germplasm resources; Invasive plants -- Biological control; Genomics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Why should weed scientists care about genomics? / William K. Vencill; title: An introduction to molecular genetic and genomic techniques / Chhandak Basu and Sam R. Zwenger; title: Arabidopsis in not a weed, and mostly not a good model for weed genomics; there is no good model for weed genomics / Jonathan Gressel; title: Model weeds for genomics research / Wun S. Chao and David P. Horvath; title: 21st century weed science: a call for amaranthus genomics / Patrick J. Tranel and Federico Trucco; title: Evolutionary genomics of weedy rice / Briana L. Gross and Kenneth M. Olsen; title: Rhizomatousness: genes important for a weediness syndrome / Andrew H. Paterson; title: Leafy spurge: an emerging model to study traits of perennial weeds / David P. Horvath; title: Herbicide resistance: target site mutations / Christopher Preston; title: Molecular and genomic mechanisms of non-target site herbicide resistance / Jun Hu ... [et al.]; title: An herbicide defense trait that is distinct from resistance: the evolutionary ecology and genomics of herbicide tolerance / Regina S. Baucom; title: The genomics of plant invasion: a case study in spotted knapweed / Amanda K. Broz and Jorge M. Vivanco; title: Molecular ecology of plant competition / Dominik D. Schmidt, Merijn R. Kant and Ian T. Baldwin; title: Genomics and weeds: a synthesis / Stephen O. Duke, Scott R. Baerson, and Jonathan Gressel.