Natural History and Genetic Diversity.- Evolution and Natural History of the Cotton Genus.- The worldwide gene pool of G. hirsutum and its improvement.- The worldwide gene pool of G. barbadense and its improvement.- The worldwide gene pools of G. arboreum and G. herbaceum and their improvement.- Genomic Tools, Resources and Approaches.- Gossypium DNA markers: types, numbers, and uses .- Physical composition and organization of the Gossypium genomes.- The Gossypium transcriptome.- Genetic Engineering of Cotton.- Mutagenesis Systems for Genetic Analysis of Gossypium.- Gossypium Bioinformatics Resources.- Bridging Classical and Genomic Investigations of Cotton Biology.- Bridging classical and molecular cytogenetics of Gossypium.- Bridging classical and molecular genetics of cotton fiber quality and development.- Bridging classical and molecular genetics of cotton disease resistance.- Bridging classical and molecular genetics of abiotic stress resistance in cotton.- Bridging Classical and Molecular Genetics in Modifying Cottonseed Oil.- Early messages.- Genomics of Cotton Fiber Secondary Wall Deposition and Cellulose Biogenesis.- Responses of the Cotton Genome to Polyploidy.- Comparative genomics of cotton and Arabidopsis.- Impacts on Agroecosystems of Transgenic Insect and Herbicide Resistance in Cotton.- Synthesis.- Toward characterizing the spectrum of diversity in the Gossypium genus.- Index
EAN/ISBN : 9780387708102
Publisher(s): Springer, Berlin, Springer, New York
Format: ePub/PDF

Author(s): Paterson, Andrew H.