This two-volume book collects 48 manuscripts that present a timely state-of-theart view on
how genomics of plant genetic resources contributes to improve our capacity to characterize …

Our lives and well being intimately depend on the exploitation of the plant genetic resources
available to our breeding programs. Therefore, more extensive exploration and effective …

Plant genetic resources collection and utilization had made a huge impact in balancing the
genetic diversity of the existing crop plant species and their application in genome based …

Highlights•Plant breeding programs operate at a scale much larger than most genetic
studies.•Populations of this magnitude are needed to study functional genomics at a systems …

Sequencing of expressed genes from several plant species has revealed that there is a
relatively high level of conservation in amino acid sequence among distantly related …

This special issue of Plant Genetic Resources has assembled 52 short articles selected
among the over 350 oral and poster communications presented during the 2nd International …

Historically, unintentional plant selection and subsequent crop domestication, coupled with
the need and desire to get more food and feed products, have resulted in the continuous …

Crops feed the world's population and shape human civilization. The improvement of crop
productivity has been ongoing for almost 10,000 years and has evolved from an experience …

For all major crops, sizeable genebanks are maintained across the world and serve as
repositories of genetic diversity and key sources of novel traits used in breeding. Although …

Rapid advances in “next‐generation” DNA sequencing technology have brought the US
$1000 human (Homo sapiens) genome within reach while providing the raw sequencing …