Journal
CURRENT GENOMICS
Volume 17, Issue 4, Pages 358-367Publisher
BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.2174/1389202917666160331202742
Keywords
Genetic diversity; NGS technology; Genotyping; QTL analysis; GWAS; Crop improvement
Funding
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) [15K14634, 26712003]
- Advanced Low Carbon Technology Research and Development Program (ALCA) of Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) [J2013403]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [15K14634, 26712003] Funding Source: KAKEN
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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.
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