The role of bioinformatics in agriculture / edited by Santosh Kumar, PhD.

Advances in information technology and next generation sequencing have propelled the use of bioinformatics in agriculture, especially in the area of crop improvement. An extremely large amount of genomics data is available from plants and animals due to tremendous improvements in the field. This boo...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Kumar, Santosh (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto : Apple Academic Press, 2014.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover; ABOUT THE EDITOR; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND HOW TO CITE; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; PART I: GENOME DATA MINING THROUGH MODERN SEQUENCING TECHNOLOGIES; CHAPTER 1: COMPARISON OF NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING SYSTEMS; CHAPTER 2: WHY ASSEMBLING PLANT GENOME SEQUENCES IS SO CHALLENGING; CHAPTER 3: GENOME WALKING BY NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING APPROACHES; CHAPTER 4: MOLECULAR TOOLS FOR EXPLORING POLYPLOID GENOMES IN PLANTS; CHAPTER 5: WHEAT GENOMICS: PRESENT STATUS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS; CHAPTER 6: DEVELOPMENT IN RICE GENOME RESEARCH BASED ON ACCURATE GENOME SEQUENCE.
  • CHAPTER 7: GENOMIC DATABASES FOR CROP IMPROVEMENTPART II: GOING BEYOND DNA VARIATIONS TO UNDERSTAND ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS; CHAPTER 8: UNCOVERING THE COMPLEXITY OF TRANSCRIPTOMES WITH RNA-SEQ; CHAPTER 9: EFFICIENT EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN AND ANALYSIS STRATEGIES FOR THE DETECTION OF DIFFERENTIAL EXPRESSION USING RNA-SEQUENCING; CHAPTER 10: ANALYZING THE MicroRNA TRANSCRIPTOME IN PLANTS USING DEEP SEQUENCING DATA; CHAPTER 11: MAIZE (Zea Mays L.) GENOME DIVERSITY AS REVEALED BY RNA SEQUENCING; CHAPTER 12: MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF EPIGENETIC VARIATION IN PLANTS.
  • CHAPTER 13: METAGENOMICS: A GUIDE FROM SAMPLING TO DATA ANALYSISPART III: SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM IS THE IDEAL MARKER; CHAPTER 14: SNP MARKERS AND THEIR IMPACT ON PLANT BREEDING; CHAPTER 15: GENOTYPING-BY-SEQUENCING IN PLANTS; AUTHOR NOTES; Back Cover.