J. Bennetzen — Handbook of Maize

Автор: J. Bennetzen
Название книги: Handbook of Maize
Формат: PDF
Жанр: Биологические науки
Страницы: 779
Качество: Изначально компьютерное, E-book

Maize is one of the world’s highest value crops, with a multibillion dollar annual contribution to agriculture. The great adaptability and high yields available for maize as a food, feed and forage crop have led to its current production on over 140 million hectares worldwide, with acreage continuing to grow at the expense of other crops. In terms of tons of cereal grain produced worldwide, maize has been number one for many years. Moreover, maize is expanding its contribution to non-food uses, including as a major source of ethanol as a fuel additive or fuel alternative in the US. In addition, maize has been at the center of the transgenic plant controversy, serving as the first food crop with released transgenic varieties. By 2008, maize will have its genome sequence released, providing the sequence of the first average-size plant genome (the four plant genomes that are now sequenced come from unusually tiny genomes) and of the most complex genome sequenced from any organism.Among plant science researchers, maize has the second largest and most productive research community, trailing only the Arabidopsis community in scale and significance. At the applied research and commercial improvement levels, maize has no peers in agriculture, and consists of thousands of contributors worthwhile. A comprehensive book on the biology of maize has not been published.The «Handbook of Maize: the Genetics and Genomics» center on the past, present and future of maize as a model for plant science research and crop improvement. The books include brief, focused chapters from the foremost maize experts and feature a succinct collection of informative images representing the maize germplasm collection.
Contents

Maize and the Origins of Plant Genetics.
East, Emerson, and the Birth of Maize Genetics; Ed Coe.
Barbara McClintock; Lee B. Kass and Paul Chomet.
The Birth of Maize Molecular Genetics; L. Curtis Hannah and Drew Schwartz.
Mutagenesis – the Key to Genetic Analysis; M.G. Neuffer, Guri Johal, M.T. Chang, and Sarah Hake.
Maize Improvement.
Development of Hybrid Corn and the Seed Corn Industry; A. Forrest Troyer.
Maize and the Biotech Industry; G. Richard Johnson and Zoe P. McCuddin.
Modern Maize Breeding; Elizabeth Lee and William F. Tracy.
The Maize Genome.
Cytogenetics and Chromosomal Structural Diversity; James A. Birchler and Hank W. Bass.
Maize Genome Structure and Evolution; Jeffrey L. Bennetzen.
Genetic Diversity, Linkage Disequilibrium and Association Mapping; Antoni Rafalski and Evgueni Ananiev.
The Polyploid Origin of Maize; Joachim Messing.
Maize Centromeres and Knobs (neocentromeres); R. Kelly Dawe.
Transposons Ac/Ds, En/Spm and their Relatives in Maize; Jianbo Zhang, Thomas Peterson, and Peter A. Peterson.
Mutator and MULE transposons; Damon Lisch and Ning Jiang.
The LTR-Retrotransposons of Maize; Phillip SanMiguel and Clémentine Vitte.
Helitrons: Their Impact on Maize Genome Evolution and Diversity; Shailesh K. Lal, Nikolaos Georgelis, and L. Curtis Hannah.
Maize GEvo: A Comparative DNA Sequence Alignment Visualization and Research Tool; Eric Lyons, Sara Castelletti, Brent Pedersen, Damon Lisch, and Michael Freeling.
Meiotic Genes and Meiosis in Maize; W. Zacheus Cande, Inna Golubovskaya, C.J. Rachel Wang, and Lisa Harper.
Homologous Recombination in Maize; Hugo K. Dooner, An-Ping Hsia, and Patrick S. Schnable
Paramutation: Heritable in Trans Effects; Maike Stam and Marieke Louwers.
Imprinting in Maize; Nathan M Springer and Jose F Gutierrez-Marcos.
Chromatin, DNA Methylation, RNAi and Epigenetic Regulation; Shawn Kaeppler.
The B Chromosome of Maize; Wayne Carlson.
Mitochondria and Chloroplasts; Kathleen J. Newton, David B. Stern, and Susan Gabay-Laughnan.
Maize Genetic and Genomic Technologies.
Genetic Mapping and Maps; Karen C. Cone and Edward H. Coe.
Genetic Analyses with Oat-Maize Addition and Radiation Hybrid Lines; Ronald L. Phillips and Howard W. Rines.
Maize Chromosome Tools: Quantitative Changes in Chromatin; David Weber.
Transposon Resources for Forward and Reverse Genetics in Maize; Donald R. McCarty and Robert B. Meeley.
TILLING and Point Mutation Detection; Clifford Weil and Rita Monde.
Gene Expression Analysis; David S. Skibbe and Virginia Walbot.
Maize Transformation; Kan Wang, Bronwyn Frame, Yuji Ishida, and Toshihiko Komari.
Doubled Haploids; Hartwig H. Geiger.
Databases and Data Mining; Carolyn J. Lawrence and Doreen Ware.
Sequencing Genes and Gene Islands by Gene Enrichment; Pablo Rabinowicz and W. Brad Barbazuk.
Genes and Gene Families.
Maize Transcription Factors; Erich Grotewold and John Gray
The Genetics and Biochemistry of Maize Zein Storage Proteins; Rebecca S. Boston and Brian A. Larkins.
The Cytochrome P450 Superfamily of Monooxygenases; Alfons Gierl.
Cell wall Biosynthetic Genes of Maize and their Potential for Bioenergy Production; Wilfred Vermerris.
Future Prospects.
The Future of Maize; Jeffrey L. Bennetzen.