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Plant System Biology
Modern systems biology emerged owing to the necessity to translate the massive amounts of data produced by genome-scale investigations into physiologically relevant insights. Given the large datasets produced ...
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Genome Sequence-Based Features of Wheat Genetic Diversity
Common wheat is a hexaploid species crop that is widely recognized as an important staple food crop. The establishment of a gold standard reference genome sequences of the well-studied CHINESE SPRING, and its ...
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Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Bioinformatics and computational biology integrate computer science, molecular biology, statistics, mathematics, and engineering to collect, manage, and analyze biological data. This interdisciplinary synergy ...
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The Application of Genome Editing Technologies in Soybean (Glycine max L.) for Abiotic Stress Tolerance
Soybean (Glycine max L.) is one of the five major cultivated crops that are important in the world, and it is also a major source of oil and protein for humans and livestock. But its seed yield is relatively low ...
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The Use of Gene Editing Technology to Introduce Targeted Modifications in Woody Plants
Genome editing technologies help in precise target genome modifications. Various powerful editing tools such as transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs), zinc-finger nucleases (ZFNs), clustered...
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Genome Sequences from Diploids and Wild Relatives of Wheat for Comparative Genomics and Alien Introgressions
Bread wheat is an important food source worldwide, contributing ~20% of the caloric intake per person worldwide. Due to a domestication bottleneck and highly selective breeding for key traits, modern wheat cul...
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Gene Flow Between Tetraploid and Hexaploid Wheat for Breeding Innovation
Durum and bread wheat are two related species with different ploidy levels but a high similarity between the common A and B genomes. This feature, which allows a continuous gene flow between the two species, c...
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Wheat Sequencing: The Pan-Genome and Opportunities for Accelerating Breeding
Wheat is a crucial crop globally, with widespread cultivation and significant economic importance. To ensure food security amidst the increasing human population and new production challenges, such as climate ...
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Plant Responses to Hypoxia Stress: Signalling Cascades and Regulatory Mechanisms
Floods leading to waterlogged soil and submerged plants are one of the major abiotic stresses affecting plants across the globe. Extended time of waterlogged soil leads to hypoxic conditions and, in some cases...
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Population Genomics of Phaseolus spp.: A Domestication Hotspot
The genus Phaseolus includes five domesticated species. Collectively, Phaseolus beans are produced across all inhabited continents under a variety of environments, mainly for dry beans but also green pods. Buildi...
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Coalescent Models of Demographic History: Application to Plant Domestication
A detailed understanding of the origins of domesticated species is important for many disciplines. Recent advances in this field have been made with the use of genome-wide polymorphisms and improved statistica...
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Population Genomics of Sweet Watermelon
Sweet watermelon (Citrullus lanatus var. vulgaris) belongs to the genus Citrullus Schrad and has six known species including Citrullus naudinianus, C. colocynthis, C. ecirrhosus, C. rehmii, C. amarus, and C. muco...
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Abiotic Stress-Induced Epigenetic Modifications in Plants
Plants are constantly exposed to various unfavourable environmental conditions, which drive them to adopt several survival strategies including epigenetic modifications. These modifications correlate with the ...
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Genomics of Plant Gene Banks: Prospects for Managing and Delivering Diversity in the Digital Age
Gene bank collections are at a pivotal point in their history. We review their development and explain how their role is changing with new technologies in computation and analytics and the widespread applicati...
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Population Genomics of Pearl Millet
Pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br., syn. Cenchrus americanus (L.) Morrone)], one of the major staple food for around 100 million people across Africa and India, is a so-called “orphan” crop. Recently, s...
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Population Genomics and Molecular Breeding of Sorghum
Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench is a multipurpose crop worldwide, and it is used as a source of food, fodder, feed, and fuel. It is currently considered a promising alternative crop for generating bioenergy from suga...
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Cellular Responses Against Abiotic Stress-Induced Reactive Oxygen Species
This chapter explores molecular mechanisms underlying behind molecular pathways triggered by excessive reactive oxygen species (ROS) production due to stress signalling. Abiotic stressors that disrupt redox eq...
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Population Genomics and Genomics-Assisted Trait Improvement in Tea (Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze)
“Tea” is undoubtedly one of the most widely consumed beverage processed from young shoots of tea [Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze] plant. The popularity of tea is attributed to its taste, aroma, and multiple hea...
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Population Genomics Along With Quantitative Genetics Provides a More Efficient Valorization of Crop Plant Genetic Diversity in Breeding and Pre-breeding Programs
The breeding efforts of the twentieth century contributed to large increases in yield but selection may have increased vulnerability to environmental perturbations. In that context, there is a growing demand f...
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Enhancing Crop Breeding Using Population Genomics Approaches
The use of genetic information to predict the value of individuals in plant breeding populations began about 40 years ago. The original paradigm was to identify genomic regions with outsize influence on a trai...
