Genomics of Tropical Crop Plants
Tropical crop plants are one of the natural world’s most valuable assets. However, the genetic resources of tropical plants are underutilized and in danger of being lost due to the destruction of natural habitats, the high costs of conservation programs,
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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.)
Paul H. Moore · Ray Ming Editors
Genomics of Tropical Crop Plants
Foreword by Deborah Delmer
Editors Ray Ming Department of Plant Biology University of lllinois at Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL, USA 1201 W. Gregory Drive Urbana 61801 288 ERML, MC-051 [email protected]
Paul H. Moore USDA-ARS, PBARC Hawaii Agriculture Research Center 99-193 Aiea Heights Drive Aiea 96701 [email protected] [email protected]
ISBN: 978-0-387-71218-5
e-ISBN: 978-0-387-71219-2
Library of Congress Control Number: 2007942800 c 2008 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Cover illustration: Small holders in tropics: Photograph by Gisela Orjeda, Bioversity International. Most of bananas grown in the tropics are produced by smallholders for home consumption or selling in local markets. Printed on acid-free paper. 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 springer.com
Foreword
Having spent most of my life in Academia teaching and carrying out fundamental research on plant form and function, I found this collection of essays to be of considerable interest as they expanded my knowledge of genomics to plants beyond the well-studied model systems of Arabidopsis, rice, and temperate maize. It was even more valuable to me in terms of my more recent interest in international agriculture—in particular, my personal interest in promoting the integration of findings from the advanced plant sciences into current approaches to crop improvement for the benefit of poor, small-scale farmers in the developing world. In my experience, one of the greatest challenges to such integration is the relatively weak interaction among scientists working at the forefront of geno
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