The Spruce Genome

Author : Ilga M. Porth,Amanda R. De la Torre
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030210014

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The Spruce Genome by Ilga M. Porth,Amanda R. De la Torre Pdf

This book offers comprehensive information on the genomics of spruces (Picea spp.), naturally abundant conifer tree species that are widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere. Due to their tremendous ecological and economic importance, the management of forest genetic resources has chiefly focused on conservation and tree improvement. A draft genome sequence of the 20-gigabase Norway spruce genome was published in the journal Nature in 2013. Continuous efforts to improve the spruce genome assembly are underway, but are hindered by the inherent characteristics of conifer genomes: high amounts of repetitive sequences (introns and transposable elements) in the genome and large gene family expansions with regards to abiotic stress, secondary metabolism and spruces' defense responses to pathogens and herbivory. This book presents the latest information on the status of genome assemblies, provides detailed insights into transposable elements and methylation patterns, and highlights the extensive genomic resources available for inferring population genomics and climate adaptation, as well as emerging genomics tools for tree improvement programs. In addition, this volume features whole-genome comparisons among conifer species, and demonstrates how functional genomics can be used to improve gene function annotations. The book closes with an outlook on emerging fields of research in spruce genomics.

Author : European Forest Genetic Resources Programme
Publisher : Bioversity International
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Forest germplasm resources conservation
ISBN : 9789290433316

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Technical Guidelines for Genetic Conservation of Norway Spruce (Picea Abies (L.) Karst.) by European Forest Genetic Resources Programme Pdf

Author : David B. Neale,Nicholas C. Wheeler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319468075

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The Conifers: Genomes, Variation and Evolution by David B. Neale,Nicholas C. Wheeler Pdf

This book is the first comprehensive volume on conifers detailing their genomes, variations, and evolution. The book begins with general information about conifers such as taxonomy, geography, reproduction, life history, and social and economic importance. Then topics discussed include the full genome sequence, complex traits, phenotypic and genetic variations, landscape genomics, and forest health and conservation. This book also synthesizes the research included to provide a bigger picture and suggest an evolutionary trajectory. As a large plant family, conifers are an important part of economic botany. The group includes the pines, spruces, firs, larches, yews, junipers, cedars, cypresses, and sequoias. Of the phylum Coniferophyta, conifers typically bear cones and evergreen leaves. Recently, there has been much data available in conifer genomics with the publication of several crop and non-crop genome sequences. In addition to their economic importance, conifers are an important habitat for humans and animals, especially in developing parts of the world. The application of genomics for improving the productivity of conifer crops holds great promise to help provide resources for the most needy in the world.

Author : Philip Stewart,Sabine Globig
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781926692982

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Vascular Plants and Paleobotany by Philip Stewart,Sabine Globig Pdf

This book provides an important collection of new research that sheds light on many aspects of the evolutionary patterns of gymnosperms, angiosperms, and pteridophtes. The book includes a complete chloroplast genome sequence study and describes a method that induces the systemic silencing of target genes in the Ceratopteris gametophyte. It presents a study of how herbicide treatments reduce fern densities and create the establishment of regeneration. It also analyzes an EST dataset from G. biloba that reveals genes potentially unique to gymnosperms and includes a study of episodic rate acceleration in the ancestral grasses.

Author : Aliyu Ahmad Warra,Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781000733945

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Industrial Crops by Aliyu Ahmad Warra,Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad Pdf

This book captures how industrial crops can be used in conventional agriculture and greener biopharming for pharmaceutical industries. Pharmaceuticals and industrial compounds are studied from the perspective of their co-existence with plant resources and byproducts. Such plant-based industrial products rely on scientific and technological breakthroughs and provide new opportunities for the agricultural sector, at the same time mitigate the risks associated with climate change. The management of the externalities and of the possible unintended economic effects that arise in this context is critical and poses difficult questions for regulators. The book also provides a review of the emerging agro-industrial biomass technology involved in conversion of most of the solid transgenic industrial crops by products such as plant oil lignocellulosic materials into liquid biobased energy-fuels. The book covers how innovative biotechnology can expand the markets for agricultural producers worldwide, reduce environmental degradation, and provide alternatives to fossil carbon-derived products and energy. Aspects of entrepreneurial biotechnology and bioprospecting are also covered.

Author : Christophe Plomion,Jean Bousquet,Chittaranjan Kole
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781578087198

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Genetics, Genomics and Breeding of Conifers by Christophe Plomion,Jean Bousquet,Chittaranjan Kole Pdf

With contributions by internationally reputed researchers in the field, this book presents the implications of the genomic revolution for conifers—promoting a better understanding of the evolution of these organisms as well as new knowledge about the molecular basis of quantitative trait variation. Both of these discoveries play important roles in their domestication. Topics include cytogenetics, patterns of nucleotide diversity, genetic mapping, integration of molecular markers in breeding, transcriptomics, advances in proteomics and metabolomics in gymnosperms, and economic importance.

Author : Anders Kvarnheden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Norway spruce
ISBN : 9155433642

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The Nuclear Genome of Norway Spruce by Anders Kvarnheden Pdf

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264095434

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Harmonisation of Regulatory Oversight in Biotechnology Safety Assessment of Transgenic Organisms, Volume 3 OECD Consensus Documents by OECD Pdf

These OECD Biosafety Consensus Documents identify elements of scientific information used in the environmental safety and risk assessment of transgenic organisms which are common to OECD member countries and some non members associated with the work.

Author : Mark G. Tjoelker,Adam Boratynski,Władysław Bugała
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781402048401

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Biology and Ecology of Norway Spruce by Mark G. Tjoelker,Adam Boratynski,Władysław Bugała Pdf

This is a concise and comprehensive review of the biology, ecology, and management of Norway spruce. Written by 25 experts in the field, and richly illustrated, it integrates classic and contemporary literature. More than 2000 works are cited in the text, which highlights basic research and forestry practices in central and Eastern Europe. The huge range of topics covered includes the species’ morphology, its physiology and nutrition, and its ecology.

Author : Peter M. Gresshoff
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000099256

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Plant Genome Analysis by Peter M. Gresshoff Pdf

Plant Genome Analysis presents outstanding analyses of technologies, as well as explanations of molecular technology as it pertains to agriculture. Advances in genome analysis, including DNA amplification (DAF and RAPD) markers, RFLPs, and microsatellites are reviewed by accomplished scientists, many of whom are the developers of the technique. Articles by patent lawyers experienced in plant biotechnology present the legal viewpoint. Chapters focus on special elements of genome analysis, such as the: use of antisense technology investigation of telomeres production of plant YACs importance of cell cycle genes in plants. Other chapters focus on specialized topics of genome analysis. These include a description of antisense technology in the study of photosynthesis and a comprehensive review of the characterization and isolation of plant telomere, including their use in varietal discrimination. A detailed anaysis of cytoplasmic male sterility in the french bean that focuses on the mitochondrial genome is described. The book provides a chapter on the production of yeast artificial chromosomes (YACs) carrying soybean DNA. Genes of the cell cycle in plants and their importance in developmental processes are presented, as well as detailed chapters on the molecular mapping of trees (apples and pines), and nodulation-related genes in legumes. A comprehensive index and a complete glossary are included.

Author : Heinrich Sandermann,Alan R. Wellburn,Robert L. Heath
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642592331

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Forest Decline and Ozone by Heinrich Sandermann,Alan R. Wellburn,Robert L. Heath Pdf

The idea for this book arose in 1993, after the Free State of Bavaria through its Bayrisches Staatsministerium rur Landesentwicklung und Umweltfragen (Bavarian Ministry of Regional Development and the Environment) decided to discontinue both the Bavarian project management (PBWU) for forest decline research and the multidisciplinary field research on the Wank Mountain in the Alps near Garmisch. Forest decline through the action of ozone and other photooxidants was a main topic of the supported re search in the Alps and will be a topic of new investigations in the Bavarian Forest. Many interesting results were obtained, but the researchers involved have not had sufficient time to allow reliable conclusions to be drawn. It was therefore decided to ask inter national experts for contributions in order to summarize the best available evidence of a possible link between ozone and forest decline - a topic which has been studied in the USA since the late 1950s and in Europe since the early 1980s. The original idea of Waldsterben as an irreversible large-scale dieback of forests in Germany was soon recognized to be wrong (Forschungsbeirat 1989). However, the new criteria used for the official German and European damage inventories (loss or yel lowing of needles or leaves, tree morphology) indicate that per sistently high percentages of damaged spruce and pine remain, and there is an increasing percentage of damaged beech and oak, with a high proportion of biotic disease (Forschungsbeirat 1989; UN-ECE 1995).

Author : Mary B. Adams,Christopher Eagar
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461229063

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Ecology and Decline of Red Spruce in the Eastern United States by Mary B. Adams,Christopher Eagar Pdf

In the early 1980s there were several published reports of recent, unexplained increases in mortality of red spruce in the Adirondack Mountains and the northern Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States. These reports coincided with documentation of reductions in radial growth of several species of pine in the southeastern United States, and with the severe, rapid, and widespread decline of Norway spruce, silver fir, and some hardwoods in central Europe. In all of these instances, atmospheric deposition was hypothesized as the cause of the decline. (Throughout this volume, we use the term "decline" to refer to a loosely synchronized regional-scale deterioration of tree health which is brought about by a combination of stress factors. These may be biotic or abiotic in nature, and the combinations may differ from site to site. ) Heated public debate about the causes and possible cures for these forest declines ensued. Through the course of this debate, it became clear that information about forest health and air pollution effects on forests was inadequate to meet policymakers' needs. Ecology and Decline of Red Spruce in the Eastern United States addresses that gap for eastern spruce fir forests and represents the culmination of a great deal of research conducted in recent years. The focus is on red spruce because the decline of red spruce was both dramatic and inexplicable and because of the great amount of information gathered on red spruce.

Author : Jian Kang,Brian Caffo,Han Liu
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-17
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : 9782889451289

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Recent Advances and Challenges on Big Data Analysis in Neuroimaging by Jian Kang,Brian Caffo,Han Liu Pdf

Big data is revolutionizing our ability to measure and study the human brain. New technology increases the resolution of images that are being study as well as enables researchers to study the brain as it functions. These technological advances are combined with efforts to collect neuroimaging data on large numbers of subjects, in some cases longitudinally. This combination of advances in measurement and scope of studies requires novel development in the statistical analysis. Fast, scalable, robust and accurate models and approaches need to be developed to make headway on these problems. This volume represents a unique collection of researchers providing deep insights on the statistical analysis of big neuroimaging data.

Author : Jean-Nicolas Volff
Publisher : Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783805584913

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Plant Genomes by Jean-Nicolas Volff Pdf

Recent major advances in the field of comparative genomics and cytogenomics of plants, particularly associated with the completion of ambitious genome projects, have uncovered astonishing facets of the architecture and evolutionary history of plant genomes. The aim of this book was to review these recent developments as well as their implications in our understanding of the mechanisms which drive plant diversity. New insights into the evolution of gene functions, gene families and genome size are presented, with particular emphasis on the evolutionary impact of polyploidization and transposable elements. Knowledge on the structure and evolution of plant sex chromosomes, centromeres and microRNAs is reviewed and updated. Taken together, the contributions by internationally recognized experts present a panoramic overview of the structural features and evolutionary dynamics of plant genomes.This volume of Genome Dynamics will provide researchers, teachers and students in the fields of biology and agronomy with a valuable source of current knowledge on plant genomes.

Author : Mary Jones,Matthew Parkin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781107589476

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Cambridge International AS and A Level Biology Workbook with CD-ROM by Mary Jones,Matthew Parkin Pdf

Fully revised and updated content matching the Cambridge International AS & A Level Biology syllabus (9700). The Cambridge International AS and A Level Biology Workbook with CD-ROM supports students to hone the essential skills of handling data, evaluating information and problem solving through a varied selection of relevant and engaging exercises and exam-style questions. The Workbook is endorsed by Cambridge International Examinations for Learner Support. Student-focused scaffolding is provided at relevant points and gradually reduced as the Workbook progresses, to promote confident, independent learning. Answers to all exercises and exam-style questions are provided on the CD-ROM for students to use to monitor their own understanding and track their progress through the course.