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Handbook of Maize Edited by Jeff Bennetzen and Sarah Hake Maize is one of the world’s highest value crops, with a multibillion dollar annual contribution to agriculture. The great adaptability and high yield of maize as a food, feed and forage crop have led to its production on a massive scale, with acreage expanding at the expense of other crops. Maize has developed in its non-food usage, comprising a major source of ethanol for fuel in the United States. In addition, maize has occupied center stage in the transgenic plant controversy, serving as one of the first food crops with commercialized transgenic varieties. The release of the genome sequence of maize in 2008 will indicate the structure and gene content of the first average-size plant genome and will be the most complex genome sequenced from any organism to date. Beyond its major agricultural and economic contributions, maize has been a model species for genetics since it was the first plant to have a genetic map, initially published by Emerson and colleagues in 1935. Such central genetic phenomena as transposable elements, nucleolar organizers, telomeres and epigenetic gene regulation were discovered first in maize, and la

Who reads Handbook of Maize : Genetics and Genomics?

Author

Ed Coe (auth.), Jeffrey L. Bennetzen, Sarah Hake (eds.)

Publisher

Springer-Verlag New York

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780387778631

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Agriculture, Mathematics