The fast-growing sugarcane plant is a major source of sugar (sucrose) in tropical and sub-tropical regions. The high productivity of the plant also makes it a key target for use as an energy crop. The fiber of the plant is used to generate electricity and produce ethanol as a fuel. Sugarcane is a hybrid of two species, each of which is genetically complex. The high level of genetic complexity in sugarcane creates challenges in the application of both conventional and molecular breeding to the genetic improvement of sugarcane as a sugar and energy crop. This book describes technologies that support the continued use and improvement of sugarcane as source of food and energy. Recent technology developments indicate the potential to greatly increase our understanding of the sugarcane plant by application of emerging genomic technologies. This should result in an increased rate of improvement of sugarcane for human uses.
Author(s): Robert J. Henry, Chittaranjan Kole
Series: Genetics, Genomics and Breeding of Crop Plants
Publisher: Science Publishers
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 276
Cover......Page 1
GENETICS, GENOMICS
AND BREEDING OF
SUGARCANE......Page 2
ISBN 9781578086849......Page 5
Contents......Page 12
Preface to the Series......Page 6
Preface to the Volume......Page 11
List of Contributors......Page 14
1. Basic Information on the Sugarcane Plant......Page 18
2. Molecular Cytogenetics......Page 25
3. Diversity Analysis......Page 35
4. Association Studies......Page 59
5. Molecular Genetic Linkage Mapping in Saccharum: Strategies, Resources and Achievements......Page 85
6. Mapping, Tagging and Map-based Cloning of Simply Inherited Traits......Page 113
7. Molecular Mapping of Complex Traits......Page 132
8. Structural Genomics and Genome Sequencing......Page 164
9. Functional Genomics: Transcriptomics of Sugarcane—Current Status and Future Prospects......Page 181
10. Proteomics and Metabolomics......Page 206
11. Role of Bioinformatics as a Tool for Sugarcane Research......Page 241
12. Future Prospects......Page 261
