The Allium Genomes

Description

This book describes the latest advances in Allium genome research. Allium includes plant species known for their huge nuclear genome size, which makes them ideal for somatic chromosome observations in high school experiments. In order to advance the genome analysis of A. cepa and its functional study, scientists in international research collaborations have developed several types of artificially manipulated genetic stocks and analyzed them using modern technologies. The Allium vegetable crop includes garlic, shallot, wakegi onion, Japanese bunching onion, and rakkyo. Bulb onion is one of the world's most important Allium commercial crops, with an estimated annual production of 85.8 million tons in 2013, and ranking third after tomato and watermelon in terms of global vegetable crops. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxii Economic and Academic Importance (Claudio R. Galmarini)....Pages 1-9 Taxonomical and Ethnobotanical Aspects of Allium Species from Middle Asia with Particular Reference to Subgenus Allium (Furkat O. Khassanov)....Pages 11-21 Allium Genetic Resources (E. R. Joachim Keller, Chris Kik)....Pages 23-52 Classical Genetics on Gene Mapping (Ali Fuat Gökçe)....Pages 53-66 Cytological Details of Genome (Ludmila Khrustaleva)....Pages 67-87 Cytoplasmic Genome (Mai Tsujimura, Toru Terachi)....Pages 89-98 Repetitive Sequences (Maki Yamamoto)....Pages 99-112 Simple Sequence Repeat (Hikaru Tsukazaki)....Pages 113-127 Gene Annotation (Hideki Hirakawa)....Pages 129-143 Gene Family Evolution in Allium Species (Jiffinvir Khosa, Robyn Lee, John McCallum, Richard Macknight)....Pages 145-159 Structural and Functional Genomic Resources Developed (Go Suzuki, Turgut Yigit Akyol, Shusei Sato)....Pages 161-172 Metabolomics of Allium Crops (Yuji Sawada)....Pages 173-179 Molecular Mapping of Genes and QTL: Progress to Date and Development of New Population Resources for NGS Genetics (John McCallum, Samantha Baldwin, Richard Macknight, Jiffinvir Khosa, Martin Shaw)....Pages 181-196 Impact of the Allium Genomes on Plant Breeding (Michael J. Havey)....Pages 197-214 Future Perspective (Mostafa Abdelrahman, Anil Khar, Masayoshi Shigyo)....Pages 215-217