Linum (flax) is a genus of about 200 species in the flowering plant family Linaceae. The genus includes common flax, which is one of the best fibers to produce linen, the seeds to produce linseed oil and has health-related properties of flax in human and animal nutrition.

This book describes the genetics and genomics of Linum including the development of extensive experimental resources (e.g. whole genome sequence, efficient transformation methods, insertional mutant collections, large germplasm collections, resequenced genomes) that have led much progress and its economic importance. The methods and use of Linum to address a wide range of applications (e.g. disease resistance, cell wall composition, abiotic stress tolerance, floral development, natural diversity) is also discussed.

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Christopher Cullis is the Francis Hobart Professor of Biology at Case Western Reserve University. He received his BSc from the University of London as a student at the University College of Rhodesia, and MSc and PhD degrees from the University of East Anglia. He has previously worked as a scientist at the John Innes Institute and spent two years as a director of the Plant Genome Program at the National Science Foundation. His research interest is primarily on the flax genome and its variations. He has published 143 papers, one text book and edited three volumes. He has served as the editor for Research and Reports in Biology and on the editorial boards of Plant Molecular Biology Reporter, Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship and the Source Journal of Genomics. He has been the recipient of Civil Service (Nuffield and Leverhulme) Traveling Fellowship and a Fulbright Scholarship.

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Table of Contents (DRAFT)

Preface

1. Taxonomy and Natural History of Linum

Possible Authors: Axel Diederichsen and/or Yong Bi Fu 

2. The gene pool of Linum usitatissimum and immediate progenitor  Linum bienne

Possible Authors: Axel Diederichsen and/or Yong Bi Fu

(Flax variety descriptors Possible authors: L. Maggioni and/or M. Pavelek)

  3. Flax breeding and variety release

Possible Authors: Scott Duguid &/or Helen Booker

4. The flax genome sequence: a core resource for flax genomics

Possible Author: Michael Deyholos<

5. The assembly of the flax genomes into chromosomes

Authors: Frank You & Sylvie Cloutier

6. Comparisons between oil-seed and fiber flax genomes

Author: C. Cullis

7. The Linum transcri ptome

Possible author: R Datla

8. Mapping resources molecular markers, mapping populations

Possible author: S. Cloutier

9. Flax transposable elements

Possible author(s): L. Galindo and M Deyholos

10. Flax small RNAs

Possible author(s): T.Y Moss and C. Cullis

11. Gene mutagenesis systems in the fatty acid pathway

Possible Authors: Alan Green for fatty acid mutants

12. Gene mutagenesis systems and resources for the flax - TILLING, transposons

Possible Authors: M. Deyholos  

13. QTL mapping

Possible Authors: S. Cloutier

14. Flax cell walls and fiber**** Possible Authors: N. Carpita or M. Deyholos/Luca Comai****

15. Flax transformation ****

Authors: N. Bastaki and C Cullis

  16. Linum Bioinformatics Resources

Author: Deyholos and Cloutier

17. Flax disease resistance genes

Possible author: Jeff Ellis

18. Genomic and phenotypic responses of flax to stress

Author: C. Cullis

19. Flax secondary products

Author: Selvaraj

20. Flax cyclic peptides

Author: Datla

21. Medicinal uses of flax Possible author: Stephanie P.B. Caligiuri

Author: Datla

22. Transgenic flax and the Triffid affair

Possible author: J. Smyth

22. Fundamental insights into plant biology that might be offered by Linum

Author: C. Cullis

Index