Rome, Italy
June 28, 2007
 The
FAO Working Group on
Biotechnology has just published:
Marker-assisted selection: Current status and future
perspectives in crops, livestock, forestry and fish
Edited by E.P. Guimarães, J. Ruane, B.D. Scherf, A. Sonnino
and J.D. Dargie
Available at
http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a1120e/a1120e00.htm
The 494-page book is
organised into six sections:
- an introduction to
marker-assisted selection (MAS) in Section I,
- a series of case
studies of MAS in crops, livestock, forestry and fish in
Sections II to V respectively,
- Section VI is devoted to a
selection of non-technical issues relevant to applications
of MAS in developing countries, such as national research
capacities and international partnerships, economic
considerations, the impacts of intellectual property rights,
and policy considerations.
The titles and authors of the 7 chapters
with case studies of
marker-assisted selection in crops
are as follows:
- Molecular markers for use in
plant molecular breeding and germplasm evaluation
by Jeremy D. Edwards and Susan R. McCouch
- Marker-assisted selection in
wheat: evolution, not revolution
by Robert Koebner and Richard Summers
- Marker-assisted selection for
improving quantitative traits of forage crops
by Oene Dolstra, Christel Denneboom, Ab L.F. de Vos and E.N.
van Loo
- Targeted introgression of cotton
fibre quality quantitative trait loci using molecular
markers
by Jean-Marc Lacape, Trung-Bieu Nguyen, Bernard Hau and Marc
Giband
- Marker-assisted selection in
common beans and cassava
by Mathew W. Blair, Martin A. Fregene, Steve E. Beebe and
Hernán Ceballos
- Marker-assisted selection in
maize: current status, potential, limitations and
perspectives from the private and public sectors
by Michel Ragot and Michael Lee
- Molecular marker-assisted
selection for resistance to pathogens in tomato
by Amalia Barone and Luigi Frusciante
Source:
http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a1120e/a1120e00.htm
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