Genetics and Genomics of Soybean

The Fabaceae (leguminosae) comprise the second largest family of flowering plants with 650 genera and 18000 species. As a member of Phaseoleae, the most economically important legume tribe, the soybean, Glycine max (L.) Merr., constitutes a major source o

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Plant Genetics and Genomics: Crops and Models Series Editor: Richard A. Jorgensen

Forthcoming and planned volumes Vol. 1 Genomics of Tropical Crop Plants (eds: Paul Moore/Ray Ming) Vol. 2 Genetics and Genomics of Soybean (ed: Gary Stacey) Vol. 3 Genetics and Genomics of Cotton (ed: Andy Paterson) Vol. 4 Plant Cytogenetics: Genome Structure and Chromosome Function (eds: Hank Bass/Jim Birchler) Vol. 5 Plant Cytogenetics: Methods and Instruction (eds: Hank Bass/Jim Birchler) Vol. 6 Genetics and Genomics of the Rosaceae (eds: Kevin Folta/Sue Gardiner) Vol. 7 Genetics and Genomics of the Triticeae (ed: Catherine Feuillet/Gary Muehlbauer) Vol. 8 Genomics of Poplar (ed: Stefan Janssen et al.)

Gary Stacey Editor

Genetics and Genomics of Soybean

Foreword by Bob Goldberg

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Editor Gary Stacey University of Missouri Columbia, MO, USA [email protected]

Series Editor Richard A. Jorgensen University of Arizona Tucson, AZ, USA [email protected]

ISBN: 978-0-387-72298-6

e-ISBN: 978-0-387-72299-3

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Foreword

Genetics and Genomics of Soybean, Edited by Professor Gary Stacey, is a remarkable collection of articles by internationally-recognized experts in the field of soybean genomics – many of whom helped to develop the tools and resources necessary to establish soybean as a powerful crop to investigate important basic and applied questions of plant biology. This collection of articles provides a comprehensive up-to-date review of the field of soybean genomics, and documents how far this field has advanced in the last few years. From the vantage point of someone like myself who first began investigating the organization and expression of the soybean genome thirty years ago, the insights provided by the authors in this book indicate that soybean has indeed “come of age,” and that decades-old mysteries of the soybean genome are now being illuminated. Genetics and Genomics of Soybean is divided into four sections: (1) soybean genome natural history and diversity – which includes chapters on the genetic variation of the soybean genome and its relationship to other legume genomes; (2) tools, resources, and approaches – which includes reviews of technological