Seed Development: OMICS Technologies toward Improvement of Seed Quality and Crop Yield

OMICS in Seed Biology

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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The book is about the seed development in the model and crop plants. Seed development is a key step of the plant life cycle that determines the nutrient value of seeds – the life for human civilization, growth, and development.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2012-12-07
Mått155 x 235 x 38 mm
Vikt1 080 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor576
Upplaga2012
FörlagSpringer
ISBN9789400747487

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PREFACE.- DEDICATION.- PART I: INTRODUCTION.- 1. Seed development: A comparative overview on biology of morphology, physiology, and biochemistry between monocot and dicot plants.- 2. Proteomics reveals a potential role of the perisperm in starch remobilization during sugarbeet seed germination.- 3. Omics platforms: Importance of 21st century genome-enabled technologies in seed developmental research for improved seed quality and crop yield.- PART II: TRANSCRIPTOMICS.- 4. Rice seed development: A cornerstone for cereal crops.- 5. A transcriptional roadmap for seed development in maize.- 6. Using transcriptomics to reveal gene networks of seed development in Arabidopsis.- 7. The Medicago truncatula gene expression atlas (MtGEA): A tool for legume seed biology and biotechnology.- 8. Transcriptomics of legume seed: Soybean a model grain legume.- 9. Peanut seed development: Molecular mechanisms of storage reserve mobilization and effect of water deficit stress on seed metabolism.- 10. Probing the genes expressed in developing seed of oilseed plants: Brassica napus (L.) as a case example.- 11. Networks of seed storage protein regulation networks in cereals and legumes at the dawn of the omics era.- PART III: PROTEOMICS.- 12. Organelle proteomics of developing seeds: Comparison with other plant tissue organelles.- 13. Proteomics in identifying new regulatory mechanisms involved in seed development and ultimately seed quality.- 14. Digging deeper into the seed proteome: Pre-fractionation of total proteins.- 15. The central role of phosphoenolpyruvate metabolism in developing oilseeds.- PART IV: METABOLOMICS.- 16. Search for low-molecular-weight biomarkers in plant tissues and seeds using metabolomics: tools, strategies, and applications.- PART V: TOWARDS SYSTEMS BIOLOGY: ORGANIZATION, INTEGRATION AND MODELIZATION OF DATA.- 17. Plant metabolic pathways: Database and pipeline for stoichiometric analysis.- 18. Coupled transcript-metabolite profiling: Towards systems biology approaches to unravel regulation of seed secondary metabolism.- 19. Using systems approaches to analyze metabolic networks involved in storage reserves synthesis in developing seeds.- 20. Metabolic specialization of maternal and filial tissues.- PART VI: DISCOVERY-DRIVEN SEED AND YIELD IMPROVEMENT.- 21. Marker-aided breeding revolutionizes 21st century crop improvement.- 22. Metabolomics-assisted crop breeding towards improvement in seed quality and yield.- 23. A role for "omics" technologies in exploration of the seed nutritional quality.- 24. Using genome-enabled technologies to address allergens in seeds of crop plants: Legumes as a case study.- 25. Improving quality and content of oils in seeds: Strategies, approaches, and application towards engineering new oilseed crop plants.- 26. Integrating “omics” in food quality and safety assessment.- PART VII: APPENDIX.- References.- Abbreviations.- Editors’ acknowledgment to contributors.- Editors’ biographies.- Index.