1st Edition
Genetics, Genomics and Breeding of Stone Fruits
The stone fruits, including peaches, apricots, almonds, plums and cherries, have been bred and grown for thousands of years and today are significant agricultural crops in many local economies worldwide providing important components to healthy diets. This volume, comprising 14 chapters authored by 37 scientists from 7 countries, presents a comprehensive commentary on classical genetics and breeding; molecular mapping and breeding of agronomic traits; cloning of genes of interest; recent advances on 'omics' sciences including structural and functional genomics, proteomics and metabolomics with an enumeration on the whole genome sequencing of the model fruit plant peach; and application of bioinformatic strategies and tools for stone fruit research.
Basic Information on the Stone Fruit Crops
Daniel Potter
Traditional Genetics and Breeding
Thomas M. Gradziel
Diversity Analysis
Maria José Aranzana, Teresa Barreneche, and Pere Arús
Molecular Linkage Maps: Strategies, Resources and Achievements
Elisabeth Dirlewanger, EudaldIlla, and Werner Howad
Mapping and Tagging of Simply Inherited Traits
Jose Miguel Soriano and Maria Luisa Badenes
Molecular Mapping of Complex Traits
Bode A.Olukolu and Chittaranjan Kole
Molecular Breeding
Daniel Esmenjaud and Chinnathambi Srinivasan
Map-based Cloning in Stone Fruits
Renate Horn, Osama Sajer, Daniel Esmenjaud, Michel Claverie, and Elisabeth Dirlewanger
Genome Sequencing Initiative
Ignazio Verde, Elisa Vendramin, Sabrina Micali, Maria Teresa Dettori, and Bryon Sosinski
Comparative Genetics and Genomics Initiatives
D. J. Sargent, S. Jung, and D. Main
Functional Genomics: Transcriptomics
LivioTrainotti, Stefano Cagnin, Claudio Forcato, Claudio Bonghi, Amit Dhingra, Tyson Koepke, Loreto Prat, Jonathan Maldonado, and Herman Silva
Proteomics and Metabolomics
María V. Lara and María F. Drincovich
Bioinformatics as a Tool for Stone Fruit Research
S. Jung and D. Main
Retrospect and Prospects
Albert G. Abbott
Biography
Chittaranjan Kole, Albert G. Abbott
