1st Edition

Genetics, Genomics and Breeding of Cucurbits

Edited By Yi-Hong Wang, T. K. Behera, Chittaranjan Kole Copyright 2012
    425 Pages 24 Color & 11 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    The last two decades has been the most exciting period in cucurbit genetic, genomic and breeding research especially for cucumber, melon and watermelon and cucumber became the first cucurbit to be sequenced, after other field crops such as rice, sorghum, soybean and maize. This book provides an in-depth review of the state-of-the-art of genetic and genomic research conducted in cucurbits in 13 chapters by 34 internationally renowned scientists and will be useful to cucurbit researchers as well as scientists working in other crops.

    Major Cucurbit Crops, Yiqun Weng and Zhanyong Sun
    Minor Cucurbits, T.K. Behera, A.K. Sureja, Sabina Islam, A.D. Munshi and A.S. Sidhu
    Classical Genetics and Traditional Breeding, Stephen R. King, Angela R. Davis and Todd C. Wehner
    Breeding Squash and Pumpkins, J. Brent Loy
    Genetic Diversity Studies in Cucurbits Using Molecular Tools, C. Esteras, F. Nuez and B. Picó
    Molecular Genetic Mapping and Map-based Cloning,Yi-Hong Wang
    Mapping and Molecular Breeding of Monogenic Traits, Yi-Hong Wang
    Genome Mapping and QTL Analysis in Cucurbits, Hugo E. Cuevas, Jack E. Staub and Juan E. Zalapa
    Genomic and Functional Genomic Resources of Melon, Zhangjun Fei and Yang Liu
    Watermelon, Amnon Levi, W. Patrick Wechter, Judy. A. Thies, and Kai-Shu Ling, Umesh K. Reddy, Yong
    XU, Shaogui Guo
    and Xingping Zhang
    Cucumber Genomics, Zhonghua Zhang, Jun He and Sanwen Huang
    Sex Expression in Cucurbits, Rebecca Grumet and Jessica Taft
    Future Prospects, Hiroshi Ezura

    Biography

    Yi-Hong Wang, T. K. Behera, Chittaranjan Kole