Genetics and Genomics of the Brassicaceae

Professor Ian Bancroft completed his PhD at the University of Lancaster in 1986 and conducted his early postdoctoral research at Michigan State University, studying the genomes of cyanobacteria. He moved to the John Innes Centre in 1989 and has been expanding and applying his genomics expertise, initially in Arabidopsis thaliana, and since 1998 in the cultivated Brassica species. Renate Schmidt is leader of the group "Genome plasticity" at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) in Gatersleben (Germany). She was educated as a molecular geneticist, and her research interests center on comparative genome analysis in the Brassicaceae and transgene expression in plants.

• Chapter 1: Phylogeny, Genome and Karyotype Evolution of Crucifers (Brassicaceae).- Chapter 2: The Brassicaceae in agriculture.- Chapter 3:The noncoding landscape of the genome of Arabidopsis thaliana.- Chapter 4: Natural variation in Arabidopsis thaliana.- Chapter 5: Chasing ghosts: comparative capping in the Brassicaceae.- Chapter 6: Comparative genome analysis at the sequence level.- Chapter 7: Structural and functional evolution of resynthesized polyploids.- Chapter 8: The genetics of Brassica rapa L.- Chapter 9: The genetics of Brassica oleracea.-Chapter 10: The genetics of Brassica napus.- Chapter 11: The genetics of Brassica juncea.- Chapter 12: Arabidopsis lyrata genetics.- Chapter 13: The genetics of Capsella.- Chapter 14: Self-incompatibility in the Brassicaceae.- Chapter 15: Sequencing the gene space of Brassica rapa.- Chapter 16: Germplasm and genomic library resources.- Chapter 17: Resources for metabolomics.- Chapter 18: Transformation technology in the Brassicaceae.- Chapter 19: Resources for reverse genetic approaches in Arabidopsis thaliana.- Chapter 20: Resources for reverse genetic approaches in Brassica species.- Chapter 21: Bioinformatics resources for Arabidopsis thaliana.- Chapter 22: Bioinformatics resources for the Brassica species.- Chapter 23: Perspectives on genetics and genomics of the Brassicaceae.