Handbook of maize : genetics and genomics /
Maize is one of the world's highest value crops, with a multibillion dollar annual contribution to agriculture. The great adaptability and high yield of maize as a food, feed and forage crop have led to its production on a massive scale, with acreage expanding at the expense of other crops. Mai...
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New York :
Springer,
[2009]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Maize and the origins of plant genetics: East, Emerson, and the birth of maize genetics
- Barbara McClintock
- The birth of maize molecular genetics
- Mutagenesis
- the key to genetic analysis
- Part II: Maize improvement: Development of hybrid corn and the seed corn
- Maize and the biotech industry
- Modern maize breeding
- Part III: The maize genome: Cytogenetics and chromosomal structural diversity
- Maize genome structure and evolution
- Genetic diversity, linkage disequilibrium and association mapping
- The polyploid origin of maize
- Maize centromeres and knobs (neocentromeres)
- Transposons Ac/Ds, En/Spm and their relatives in maize
- Mutator and MULE transposons
- The LTR-retrotransposons of maize
- Helitrons: their impact on maize genome evolution and diversity
- Maize GEvo: a comparative DNA sequence alignment visualization and research tool
- Meiotic genes and meiosis in maize
- Homologous recombination in maize
- Paramutation: heritable in trans effects
- Imprinting in maize
- Chromatin, DNA Methylation, RNAi and epigenetic regulation
- The B chromosome of maize
- Mitochondria and chloroplasts
- Part IV: Maize genetic and genomic technologies: Genetic mapping and maps
- Genetic analyses with oat-maize addition and radiation hybrid lines
- Maize chromosome tools: quantitative changes in chromatin
- Transposon resources for forward and reverse genetics in maize
- TILLING and point mutation detection
- Gene expression analysis
- Maize transformation
- Doubled haploids
- Databases and data mining
- Sequencing genes and gene islands by gene enrichment
- Part V: Genes and gene families: Maize transcription factors
- The genetics and biochemistry of maize zein storage proteins
- The Cytochrome P450 superfamily of Monooxygenases
- Cell wall biosynthetic genes of maize and their potential for bioenergy production
- Part VI: Future prospects: The future of maize.