Genomics of Cultivated Palms

by V Arunachalam

Overview

Bioinformatics offers novel tools and resources to analyze plant genomes and genes. The complete genomes of two important commercial palms (dates and oil palm) have recently been sequenced. This offers scope for many computational tools to decipher the synteny, collinearity and common and unique genes of palms.

This book reviews the latest developments in this field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780123877369
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	12/12/2011
Pages:	114
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.60(d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Coconut Chapter 3 Oil palm Chapter 4 Date palm Chapter 5 Palmyra Chapter 6 Arecanut Chapter 7 Ornamental palms Chapter 8 Rattans Chapter 9 Underutilized palms Chapter 10 Comparative genomics References

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Covers the major commercial taxa in one volume