Allele Mining for Genomic Designing of Fruit Crops Nextgen Agriculture Series

This book deliberates on the concept, strategies, tools, and techniques of allele mining in fruit crops and its application potential in genome elucidation and improvement including studying allele evolution, discovery of superior alleles, discerning new haplotypes, assessment of intra- and interspecific similarity, and also studies of gene expression and gene prediction. Available gene pools in global germplasm collections specifically consisting of wild allied species and local landraces for almost all major crops have facilitated allele mining. Advanced genomic techniques have been developed including PCR-based allele priming and Eco-TILLING-based allele mining that are being widely used now for mining superior alleles. Allele discovery has become more relevant now for employing molecular breeding to develop designed crop varieties matching with consumer needs and also with genome plasticity to adapt the climate change scenarios. All these concepts and strategies along with precise success stories are presented over the chapters dedicated to the major fruit crops.

The features of this book are as follows:

1. The first book on the novel strategy of allele mining in fruit crops for precise breeding
2. Presents genomic strategies of mining superior alleles underlying agronomic traits from genomic resources
3. Depicts case studies of PCR-based allele priming and Eco-TILLING-based allele mining
4. Elaborates on gene discovery and gene prediction in major fruit crops

This book will be useful to students and faculties in various plant science disciplines including genetics, genomics, molecular breeding, agronomy, and bioinformatics; scientists in seed industries; and also policy makers and funding agencies interested in crop improvement.

1. 1. Allele Mining in Banana C. Anuradha, S. Backiyarani and A. Chandrasekar. 2. Practices of Allele Mining in Apple Shigeki Moriya and S. Moriya. 3.Tools and Techniques for Allele Mining in Apple Cheol Choi 4. Allele mining in Citrus: prospects and potentials for functional genomics, evolutional studies, and genomics-assisted breeding Tokurou Shimizu and Hiroyoshi Iwata. 5. Allele Mining for Complex Traits in Grapevine Anuradha Upadhyay, Roshni R. Samarth, Nandini Goyal and Kashmir Singh. 6. Allele mining and marker identification for germplasm characterization and breeding in berries. 7. Allele mining and candidate gene identification in cherries - basis for crop improvement, Birutė Frercks, Raminta Antanynienė, Edvinas Misiukevičius, Jurgita Vinskienė, Augustina Kolytaitė and Gunars Lacis 8. Allele Mining In Tropical Fruit Crop Carica papaya L; Current Scenario And Future Perspective Fawad Ali and Rebecca Ford. 9. Allele Mining for Genome Designing of Pear Gilad Gabay 10. Molecular Markers and Allele mining in kiwifruit breeding De Mori G, De Rosa V, Cipriani G. 11. Allele Mining in Apricot (Prunus armeniaca L.) Breeding: Current State and Future Prospect Filippo Geuna, Juan Alfonso Salazar, Pedro Martinez-Gomez. 12. Allele Mining in Melon Crop Improvement Rakesh Kumar

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Prof. Chittaranjan Kole is an internationally reputed scientist with an illustrious professional career spanning over thirty-seven years and original contributions in the fields of plant genomics, biotechnology and molecular breeding leading to the publication of more than 160 quality research articles and reviews. He has edited over 150 books for the leading publishers of the world including Springer, Wiley-Blackwell and Taylor and Francis Group. His scientific contributions and editing acumen have been appreciated by seven Nobel Laureates including Profs. Norman Borlaug, Arthur Kornberg, Werner Arber, Phillip Sharp, Günter Blobel, Lee Hartwell and Roger Kornberg. He has been honored with a number of Fellowships, Honorary Fellowships, and national and international awards including the Outstanding Crop Scientist award conferred by the International Crop Science Society. He has served at all prestigious positions in academia including as Vice-Chancellor of BC Agricultural university, Project Coordinator of Indo-Russian Center of Biotechnology in India, and Director of Research of Institute of Nutraceutical Research of Clemson University, in USA. He worked also in the Pennsylvania State University and Clemson University as Visiting Professor in USA. Recently, he has been awarded with the Raja Ramanna Fellow by the Department of Energy, Government of India. He is also heading the International Climate-Resilient Crop Genomics Consortium, International Phytomedomics and Nutriomics Consortium and Genome India International as their founding President.

Dr. Kenta Shirasawa is the head of the Laboratory of Plant Genetics and Genomics at the Kazusa DNA Research Institute in Japan. He holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural Science from Tohoku University, where his doctoral research focused on unraveling the genetic mechanisms underlying important traits in rice, specifically stress tolerance. Dr. Shirasawa specializes in utilizing advanced genomic technologies