The Capsicum Genome

Description

This book contains complete information on Capsicum genetic resources, diversity, evolution, history and advances in capsicum improvement from classical breeding to whole genome sequencing, genomics, databases and its impact on next generation pepper breeding. Capsicum is one of the most important Solanaceae crops grown worldwide as vegetables and spices. Due to its high economic value and to meet the demands of enormous population growth amid biotic and abiotic stresses, there has been an ongoing breeding program utilizing available genetic resources with desired traits to increase the sustainable productivity of this crop for several decades. However, the precision breeding of this crop for desired traits only started with the advent of molecular markers. The recent advances in high-throughput genome sequencing technologies helped in the quick decoding of transcriptome, epigenome, nuclear and organeller genomes, thereby enhancing our understanding of the structure and function of the Capsicum genome, and helping in genomics assisted breeding. These advanced technologies coupled with conventional mapping have greatly contributed towards dissection and manipulation of economically important traits more precisely and made less time consuming. Front Matter ....Pages i-xx The Capsicum Crop: An Introduction (Pasquale Tripodi, Sanjeet Kumar)....Pages 1-8 Genetic Resources of Capsicum (Derek W. Barchenger, Ponnam Naresh, Sanjeet Kumar)....Pages 9-23 Capsicum Breeding: History and Development (Arpita Srivastava, Manisha Mangal)....Pages 25-55 Cytology and DNA Content Variation of Capsicum Genomes (M. A. Scaldaferro, E. A. Moscone)....Pages 57-84 Development and Evolution of Molecular Markers and Genetic Maps in Capsicum Species (Jundae Lee)....Pages 85-103 Molecular Mapping and Identification of QTLs and Genes for Economically Important Traits in the Capsicum Genome (Vijee Mohan, Ilan Paran)....Pages 105-119 Genes/Quantitative Trait Loci and Associated Molecular Mechanisms Identified in Capsicum Genome for Tolerance to Abiotic and Biotic Stresses (Vandana Jaiswal, Vijay Gahlaut, Meenakshi Dubey, Nirala Ramchiary)....Pages 121-138 Genome Sequencing of Capsicum Species: Strategies, Assembly, and Annotation of Genes (Pasquale Tripodi, Alberto Acquadro, Sergio Lanteri, Nunzio D’Agostino)....Pages 139-152 Sequencing of Capsicum Organellar Genomes (Nitin Kumar, Khushbu Islam, Nirala Ramchiary)....Pages 153-172 Noncoding RNAs in Capsicum Genome (Ilyas Ahmad, Mukesh Nitin, Abdul Rawoof, Meenakshi Dubey, Nirala Ramchiary)....Pages 173-186 Epigenome Landscape in Capsicum Genome (Abdul Rawoof, Ilyas Ahmad, Nirala Ramchiary)....Pages 187-199 Revisiting Origin, Evolution, and Phylogenetics of Capsicums in the Genomics Era (Pasquale Tripodi)....Pages 201-208 Impact of Genomics on Capsicum Breeding (Kenta Shirasawa, Tomohiro Ban, Noriko Nagata, Toshiya Murakana)....Pages 209-219 Sequence Databases and Online Tools for Capsicum Research (Feng Li, Minglei Liu, Yingjia Zhou)....Pages 221-232