The stone fruits-including peaches, apricots, almonds, plums, and cherries-have been bred and grown for thousands of years and today are significant agricultural crops in many local economies worldwide. Genetics, Genomics and Breeding of Stone Fruits presents a comprehensive commentary on classical genetics and breeding, molecular mapping and breeding of agronomic traits, and the cloning of genes of interest. It also explores recent advances on omics sciences including structural and functional genomics, proteomics, nd metabolomics. Genetics, Genomics and Breeding of Stone Fruits enumerates the whole genome sequencing of the model fruit plant peach and discusses bioinformatic strategies and tools for stone fruit research
- Basic Information on the Stone Fruit Crops Daniel Potter
- Traditional Genetics and Breeding Thomas M. Gradziel
- Diversity Analysis Maria Jose Aranzana, Teresa Barreneche, and Pere Arus
- Molecular Linkage Maps: Strategies, Resources and Achievements Elisabeth Dirlewanger, EudaldIlla, and Werner Howad
- Mapping and Tagging of Simply Inherited Traits Jose Miguel Soriano and Maria Luisa Badenes
- Molecular Mapping of Complex Traits Bode A.Olukolu and Chittaranjan Kole
- Molecular Breeding Daniel Esmenjaud and Chinnathambi Srinivasan
- Map-based Cloning in Stone Fruits Renate Horn, Osama Sajer, Daniel Esmenjaud, Michel Claverie, and Elisabeth Dirlewanger
- Genome Sequencing Initiative Ignazio Verde, Elisa Vendramin, Sabrina Micali, Maria Teresa Dettori, and Bryon Sosinski
- Comparative Genetics and Genomics Initiatives D. J. Sargent, S. Jung, and D. Main
- Functional Genomics: Transcriptomics LivioTrainotti, Stefano Cagnin, Claudio Forcato, Claudio Bonghi, Amit Dhingra, Tyson Koepke, Loreto Prat, Jonathan Maldonado, and Herman Silva
- Proteomics and Metabolomics Maria V. Lara and Maria F. Drincovich
- Bioinformatics as a Tool for Stone Fruit Research S. Jung and D. Main
- Retrospect and Prospects Albert G. Abbott