Overview
- Discusses the possibilities of genetic improvement of peppers
- Enumerates on the genome-wide identification of non-coding RNAs and epigenetic markers and their functional role
- Describes tools and strategies used in genome sequencing and analysis
Part of the book series: Compendium of Plant Genomes (CPG)
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This book contains complete information on Capsicum genetic resources, diversity, evolution, history and advances in capsicum improvement from classical breeding to whole genome sequencing, genomics, databases and its impact on next generation pepper breeding. Capsicum is one of the most important Solanaceae crops grown worldwide as vegetables and spices. Due to its high economic value and to meet the demands of enormous population growth amid biotic and abiotic stresses, there has been an ongoing breeding program utilizing available genetic resources with desired traits to increase the sustainable productivity of this crop for several decades. However, the precision breeding of this crop for desired traits only started with the advent of molecular markers. The recent advances in high-throughput genome sequencing technologies helped in the quick decoding of transcriptome, epigenome, nuclear and organeller genomes, thereby enhancing our understanding of the structure and function ofthe Capsicum genome, and helping in genomics assisted breeding. These advanced technologies coupled with conventional mapping have greatly contributed towards dissection and manipulation of economically important traits more precisely and made less time consuming.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Nirala ramchiary
Dr. Nirala Ramchiary is currently working as Assistant Professor at School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He has more than 15 years of experience on breeding, genetics and genomics of crop plants especially Brassica and Capsicum crops. After completion of his Ph.D from the Department of Genetics, Delhi University South Campus, he went to work as Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Department of Horticulture, Chungnam National University, South Korea for almost four years and returned back to India to join as Assistant Professor at Gauhati University, Assam and subsequently joined Jawaharlal Nehru University. Since then he has been working on Genetics and Genomics of Capsicum crop. His significant research contributions on crop genetics and genomics led to several publications on journals of international repute. He is recipient of several national fellowships from scientific organizations of Government of India such as Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, and Prestigious Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellowship from the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India; and international fellowships which are Foreign Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the National Research Foundation, Department of Science and Technology, Government of Republic of Korea, and European Union Erasmus Mundas –BRAVE fellowship. His current research interests are development of genetic and genomic resources for Bhut jolokia/Ghost chilli, understanding the molecular basis of extreme pungency in ghost chilli and intra and interspecies heterotic hybrids.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Capsicum Genome
Editors: Nirala Ramchiary, Chittaranjan Kole
Series Title: Compendium of Plant Genomes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97217-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-97216-9Published: 01 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-97217-6Published: 18 February 2019
Series ISSN: 2199-4781
Series E-ISSN: 2199-479X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 232
Topics: Plant Genetics and Genomics, Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Agriculture