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Title: SUGARCANE GENOMICS AND BREEDING

Author
item MING, RAY - HI AG RESEARCH CENTER
item WU, KUO-KAO - HI AG RESEARCH CENTER
item Moore, Paul
item PATTERSON, ANDREW - UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA

Submitted to: Plant Breeding Reviews
Publication Type: Book / Chapter
Publication Acceptance Date: 6/20/2006
Publication Date: 6/20/2006
Citation: Ming, R., Wu, K., Moore, P.H., Patterson, A.H. 2006. Sugarcane genomics and breeding. In: Lamkey and Lee (eds). Plant Breeding: The Arnel R. Hallauer Symposium. Blackwell Publishing. Chap 20. pp. 283-292.

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: A decade of progress in sugarcane genomics has provided a wealth of data and formulated at least partial answers to century-old questions that were once considered unanswerable. A growing abundance of genomic information is becoming available to sugarcane breeders and geneticists to assist and advance their research and development programs. Future advancements will provide increasingly practical tools for sugarcane breeders to develop improved sugarcane cultivars to: - Produce complete sugarcane linkage maps using existing RFLP maps as frame scaffolds upon which to add high thoughput DNA markers such as AFLPs - Develop the capacity to scan whole sugarcane genomes for QTLs controlling economic traits though use of completed maps - Integrate sugarcane and sorgum genetic and physical maps with most or all of the abundant EST on the map to generate the ultimate tools for QTL mapping and gene isolation - Uncover the mechanism of female restitution in S. officinarum to advance our knowledge of basic biology and perhaps find significant applications to crop improvements in other species - Solve the last evolutionary puzzle about sugarcane speciation and classification by using genomic in situ hybridization to determine the interspecific or interspefic origin of S. edule