New publication: Cereal Genomics [p. 12]
Edited by P.K. Gupta and R.K. Varshney.

Cereal Genomics, edited by P.K. Gupta, Ch. Charan Singh University, Meerut, India, and R.K. Varshney, Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany.

This book is the first of its kind, where 20 chapters written by experts of international repute, cover all aspects of cereal genomics research. In recent years genomics has become a thrust area of research in life sciences, and cereals, being the most important group of crops, their genomes have been subjected to intensive/extensive analyses. The knowledge and the products generated through cereal genomics research already are being used for plant breeding through both, the marker-assisted selection and transgenic cereals. The areas covered in this book include development and use of all kinds of molecular markers (including SNPs); construction and use of molecular maps; study of population genetics; and domestication of cereals using tools of genomics research, structural and functional genomics (including whole-genome sequencing in Arabidopsis and rice), comparative genomics, QTL (including epistatic and e-QTL), and genes for resistance against biotic and abiotic stresses, marker-assisted selection, map-based cloning of genes/QTL, and the use of genomics research for crop improvement. The book, therefore, should prove useful not only for students and teachers, but also for the young research workers, who are starting their research career in the field of cereal genomics. Cereal Genomics from Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands. Details of the book can be found at http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/1-4020-2358-8. Hard cover, ISBN 1-4020-2358-8; eBook, ISBN 1-4020-2359-6.

Table of contents and contributors.