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Exploring Genetic Diversity in Plants Using High-Throughput Sequencing Techniques
- Source :
- Current Genomics
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Food security has emerged as an urgent concern because of the rising world population. To meet the food demands of the near future, it is required to improve the productivity of various crops, not just of staple food crops. The genetic diversity among plant populations in a given species allows the plants to adapt to various environmental conditions. Such diversity could therefore yield valuable traits that could overcome the food-security challenges. To explore genetic diversity comprehensively and to rapidly identify useful genes and/or allele, advanced high-throughput sequencing techniques, also called next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies, have been developed. These provide practical solutions to the challenges in crop genomics. Here, we review various sources of genetic diversity in plants, newly developed genetic diversity-mining tools synergized with NGS techniques, and related genetic approaches such as quantitative trait locus analysis and genome-wide association study.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine
Genotyping
QTL analysis
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Genomics
Genome-wide association study
Crop improvement
Biology
Quantitative trait locus
01 natural sciences
DNA sequencing
Article
Genetic diversity
03 medical and health sciences
Genetics
GWAS
Allele
Genetics (clinical)
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Food security
business.industry
food and beverages
NGS technology
Biotechnology
030104 developmental biology
business
human activities
010606 plant biology & botany
Diversity (politics)
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 13892029
- Volume :
- 17
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Current genomics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....db78adc6a793ae2c578e26c8581691a9