Model plants and crop improvement
By: edited by Rajeev K. Varshney, Robert M.D. Koebner.
Contributors: Varshney, R. K. 1973-; Koebner, Robert.
Publisher: CRC/Taylor & Francis
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Boca Raton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9780849330636
Subjects: Crop improvement; Plant molecular biology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Development and application of genomic models for large-crop plant genomes / Robert M.D. Koebner and Rajeev K. Varshney; title: Conserved mechanisms of dormancy and germination as targets for manipulation of agricultural problems / Michael Holdsworth, Leónie Bentsink, and Maarten Koornneef; title: Utilization of Arabidopsis and Brassica genomic resources to underpin genetic analysis and improvement of Brassica crops / Graham J. King; title: Characterization of the completed rice genome sequence and scope of its utilization in cereal improvement / Baltazar A. Antonio and Takuji Sasaki; title: Model legume Medicago truncatula / Henk Franssen and René Geurts; title: Brachypodium distachyon : a new model system for structural and functional analysis of grass genomes / David F. Garvin; title: The green alga Chlamydomonas as a tool to study the nitrate assimilation pathway in plants / Aurora Galván ... [et al.]; title: Transcription factors regulating plant defense responses / Pierre R. Fobert; title: Defense signaling and pathway interactions involved in rice disease resistance / Xiangjun Zhou, Tameka Bailey, and Yinong Yang; title: Identification of heat-shock factor regulated genes and pathways / Friedrich Schöffl ... [et al.]; title: Improving low-temperature tolerance in plants / Markku K. Aalto, Pekka Heino, and E. Tapio Palva.; title: The development and application of genomic models for large crop plant genomes / R.M.D. Koebner, and R.K. Varshney; title: Conserved mechanisms of dormancy and germination as targets for manipulation of agricultural problems using Arabidopsis as model system / M. Holdsworth, L. Bentsink, and M. Koornneef; title: Utilization of Arabidopsis and Brassica resources for improvement of Brassica crops / G.J. King; title: Characterization of the completed rice genome sequence and its utilization in cereal genomics / B.A. Antonio, and T. Sasaki; title: Model legume Medicago truncatula / H. Franssen, and R. Geurts; title: Brachypodium distachyon, a new model system for structural and functional analysis of grass genomes / D.F. Garvin; title: The green alga Chlamydomonas as a tool to study the nitrate assimilation pathway in plants / A. Galván, V. Mariscal, D. González-Ballester, and E. Fernández; title: Transcription factors regulating plant defense responses / P.R. Fobert; title: Defense signaling and pathway interactions involved in rice disease resistance / X. Zhou, T. Bailey, and Y. Yang; title: Identification of heat shock factor regulated genes and pathways / F. Schöffl, W. Busch, M. Kumar, and T.J. Panikulangara; title: Understanding of biological mechanisms of low temperature stress in plants by using Arabidopsis / M.K. Aalto, P. Heino, and E.T. Palva.