Genetics and Genomics of Linum

Description

Linum (flax) is a genus of about 200 species in the flowering plant family Linaceae. The genus includes common flax, which is one of the best fibers to produce linen, the seeds to produce linseed oil and has health-related properties of flax in human and animal nutrition. This book describes the genetics and genomics of Linum including the development of extensive experimental resources (e.g. whole genome sequence, efficient transformation methods, insertional mutant collections, large germplasm collections, resequenced genomes) that have led much progress and its economic importance. The methods and use of Linum to address a wide range of applications (e.g. disease resistance, cell wall composition, abiotic stress tolerance, floral development, natural diversity) is also discussed. Front Matter ....Pages i-viii A Taxonomic View on Genetic Resources in the Genus Linum L. for Flax Breeding (Axel Diederichsen)....Pages 1-15 A Molecular View of Flax Gene Pool (Yong-Bi Fu)....Pages 17-37 Flax Breeding and Cultivar Registration in Canada (Helen Mary Booker)....Pages 39-62 The First Flax Genome Assembly (Michael K. Deyholos)....Pages 63-72 Assembly of the Flax Genome into Chromosomes (Frank M. You, Sylvie Cloutier)....Pages 73-87 Comparison Between the Genomes of a Fiber and an Oil-Seed Variety of Flax (Christopher A. Cullis, Margaret A. Cullis)....Pages 89-96 Linum Genetic Markers, Maps, and QTL Discovery (Sylvie Cloutier, Frank M. You, Braulio J. Soto-Cerda)....Pages 97-117 Genetic Potential and Gene Expression Landscape in Flax (Jonathan S. Griffiths, Raju S. S. Datla)....Pages 119-128 Flax Small RNAs (Alexey A. Dmitriev, Anna V. Kudryavtseva, Nataliya V. Melnikova)....Pages 129-144 Development of Flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) Mutant Populations for Forward and Reverse Genetics (Sébastien Grec, Marion Dalmais, Manash Chatterjee, Abdelhafid Bendahmane, Simon Hawkins)....Pages 145-165 Linum Lignan and Associated Biochemical Pathways in Human Health and Plant Defense (Syed G. A. Moinuddin, John R. Cort, Clyde A. Smith, Christophe Hano, Laurence B. Davin, Norman G. Lewis)....Pages 167-193 Flax Transformation via Floral-Dipping (Nasmah Bastaki, Christopher A. Cullis)....Pages 195-214 Disease Resistance Genes in Flax (Christopher A. Cullis)....Pages 215-225 Origin and Induction of the Flax Genotrophs (Christopher A. Cullis)....Pages 227-234 Flax Genome “Edits” in Response to the Growth Environment (Christopher A. Cullis, Margaret A. Cullis)....Pages 235-248 Transgenic Flax and the Triffid Affair (Camille D. Ryan, Stuart J. Smyth)....Pages 249-260 Fundamental Insights into Plant Biology that Might Be Offered by Flax (Christopher A. Cullis)....Pages 261-263 Back Matter ....Pages 265-270