Genomic Approaches for Improvement of Understudied Grasses

• Main Author: Keenan Amundsen (auth)
• Other Authors: Teresa Donze-Reiner (auth), Gautam Sarath (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2017
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Botany & plant sciences; biomass yield; differential gene expression; grasses; RNA-Seq; Genomics; Proteomics; Genotypic diversity; Stress Tolerance
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Grasses are diverse, spanning native prairies to high-yielding grain cropping systems. They are valued for their beauty and useful for soil stabilization, pollution mitigation, biofuel production, nutritional value, and forage quality; grasses encompass the most important grain crops in the world. T...