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Handbook of Maize: Its Biology

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Focusing on the past, present and future of maize as a model for plant science research and crop improvement, this book includes chapters from leading maize experts and features a collection of informative images representing the maize germplasm collection.

Maize is one of the world's highest value crops, with a multibillion dollar annual contribution to agriculture. The great adaptability and high yields available for maize as a food, feed and forage crop have led to its current production on over 140 million hectares worldwide, with acreage continuing to grow at the expense of other crops. In terms of tons of cereal grain produced worldwide, maize has been number one for many years. Moreover, maize is expanding its contribution to non-food uses, including as a major source of ethanol as a fuel additive or fuel alternative in the US. In addition, maize has been at the center of the transgenic plant controversy, serving as the first food crop with released transgenic varieties. By 2008, maize will have its genome sequence released, providing the sequence of the first average-size plant genome (the four plant genomes that are now sequenced come from unusually tiny genomes) and of the most complex genome sequenced from any organism.

Beyond its major agricultural and economic contributions, maize has been a model species for genetics since it was the first plant to have a genetic map, initially published by Emerson and colleagues in 1935. Such central genetic phenomena as telomeres, nucleolar organizers, transposable elements and epigenetic gene regulation were all discovered first in maize, and later found to be universal eukaryotic genome properties. These central genetic contributions continue, including the characterization of the structure and evolution of complex plant genomes.

Among plant science researchers, maize has the second largest and most productive research community, trailing only the Arabidopsis community in scale and significance. At the applied research and commercial improvement levels, maize has no peers in agriculture, and consists of thousands of contributors worthwhile. A comprehensive book on the biology of maize has not been published. In 1999, Peterson and Bianchi published"Maize Genetics and Breeding in the 20th Century", a highly personal account of the last hundred years of maize genetics". In 1968 and 1996, two editions of "The Mutants of Maize" were published, and these have been landmark books showing and briefly describing the contemporary genetic and molecular status of the maize mutant collection, a collection unsurpassed for any other organism, animal or plant. In the last seven years, there has been no publication targeting maize genetics, genomics or overall biology. Hence, a modern and comprehensive volume on the status (and future) of maize as a species for biological study is highly warranted.

Handbook of Maize: Its Biology centers on the past, present and future of maize as a model for plant science research and crop improvement. The book includes brief, focused chapters from the foremost maize experts and features a succinct collection of informative images representing the maize germplasm collection.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Vegetative Shoot Meristems. - Development of the Inflorescences. - The Maize Floral Transition. - The Maize Male Gametophyte. - The Maize Megagametophyte. - Patterning of the Maize Embryo and the Perspective of Evolutionary Developmental Biology. - Kernel Biology. - The Maize Root System: Morphology, Anatomy, and Genetics. - Axial Patterning of the Maize Leaf. - Cell Biology of Maize Leaf Development. - Light Signal Transduction Networks in Maize. - Maize Disease Resistance. - Virus Resistance. - Genetics and Biochemistry of Insect Resistance in Maize. - Chilling Stress in Maize Seedlings. - Drought Tolerance in Maize. - Responses to Oxygen Deprivation and Potential for Enhanced Flooding Tolerance in Maize. - Maize Al Tolerance. - Maize Under Phosphate Limitation. - Agronomic Traits and Maize Modifications: Nitrogen Use Efficiency. - Seed Phosphate. - Seed Starch Synthesis. - Heterosis. - Increasing Yield. - The Illinois Long-Term Selection Experiment, Related Studies, and Perspectives. - QTL for Agronomic Traits in Maize Production. - The Mexican Landraces: Description, Classification and Diversity. - Production, Breeding and Process of Maize in China.

Produktdetails

Erscheinungsdatum
23. November 2010
Sprache
englisch
Auflage
Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st edition 2009
Seitenanzahl
600
Herausgegeben von
Jeff L. Bennetzen, Sarah C. Hake
Illustrationen
IX, 587 p.
Verlag/Hersteller
Produktart
kartoniert
Abbildungen
IX, 587 p.
Gewicht
896 g
Größe (L/B/H)
235/155/33 mm
ISBN
9781441927224

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From the reviews: "The book shapes the current bigger picture of the maize plant and puts its biology back into the minds of maize geneticists and breeders. ... High-quality figures, good explanatory colour diagrams and informative tables support the excellent, technically flawless text. The book is delightful to read ... which is supplemented with a large selection of literature references. ... very useful for teachers, students and non-specialists, in addition to maize researchers and breeders as well. ... it is an excellent book, produced at the right time." (Ralf G. Kynast, Annals of Botany, Vol. 109 (7), June, 2012)

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