GENOME BIOLOGY OF RAPESEED AND MUSTARD

Rapeseed and mustard are multipurpose crops
traditionally cultivated in almost all of the
agroecosystems of the world. All parts of the
rapeseed and mustard plants can be used as food,
fodder, feed, salad, condiment or traditional
medicine etc. Genetic improvement of these crops
has played an important role in livelihood
improvement of people of the developed world.
Mustard seed is nowadays viewed in the prism of
biofuel, which needs proper genetic manipulation.
This book is an outcome of a PhD project of
University of the Punjab, Lahore. It explores genome
relationship of the cultivated oilseed of the genus
Brassica. The tools employed for elucidating genome
biology included the results obtained from
interspecific hybridization, preferential pairing
within and among the induced auto and amphiploid
sporocytes. Depending upon the crossibility
patterns, genomic interactions at amphiploid and
autotetraploid levels, and chromosomal behavior
during diploidization of polyploids; the origin of
rapeseed and mustard is elaborated.

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Prof. Dr. Habib Ahmad is Dean, Faculty of Science, Hazara University, Pakistan. He remained in several organizations on seats of higher learning. He is a prolific writer, experienced plant geneticist and authority on plant diversity of Western Himalayas. He has more than 100 research papers and a number of books to his credit.

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Rapeseed and mustard are multipurpose crops traditionally cultivated in almost all of the agroecosystems of the world. All parts of the rapeseed and mustard plants can be used as food, fodder, feed, salad, condiment or traditional medicine etc. Genetic improvement of these crops has played an important role in livelihood improvement of people of the developed world. Mustard seed is nowadays viewed in the prism of biofuel, which needs proper genetic manipulation. This book is an outcome of a PhD project of University of the Punjab, Lahore. It explores genome relationship of the cultivated oilseed of the genus Brassica. The tools employed for elucidating genome biology included the results obtained from interspecific hybridization, preferential pairing within and among the induced auto and amphiploid sporocytes. Depending upon the crossibility patterns, genomic interactions at amphiploid and autotetraploid levels, and chromosomal behavior during diploidization of polyploids; the origin of rapeseed and mustard is elaborated.