Part of the series Genome Mapping and Molecular Breeding in Plants, Oilseeds is devoted to oil-producing field crops such as soybeans, oilseed rape, peanuts, sunflowers, Indian mustard, Brassica rapa, black mustard and flax. Related crops having multiple uses are also included.

Genome Mapping and Molecular Breeding in Plants presents the current status of the elucidation and improvement of plant genomes of economic interest. The focus is on genetic and physical mapping, positioning, cloning, monitoring of desirable genes by molecular breeding and the most recent advances in genomics. The series comprises seven volumes: Cereals and Millets; Oilseeds; Pulses, Sugar and Tuber Crops; Fruits and Nuts; Vegetables; Technical Crops; and Forest Trees. This volume, Oilseeds, is devoted to oil-producing field crops such as soybeans, oilseed rape, peanuts, sunflowers, Indian mustard, Brassica rapa, black mustard and flax. While the grouping of economic plants is conventionally based on their agricultural purposes, the volume covers several crops with other uses besides yielding oils: Brassica rapa, also used as a vegetable, the sunflower as an ornamental, flax as a fibre crop, and Black mustard, used as a condiment but genetically close to other Brassica species.

Some 300 prominent scientists working in more than 30 countries with significant contributions on plant genome mapping and molecular breeding have authored the 82 chapters of the series This herculean work will be useful for generations to come," Guenter Blobel says of the project An invaluable work that will promote further genomic research Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Chittaranjan Kole is Professor of Genetics and Plant Breeding at Allahabad Agricultural Institute in India. He is currently Visiting Professor at Clemson University. He has over two decades of teaching and research experience in molecular biology and biotechnology

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Geung-Joo Lee, Xiaolei Wu, J. Grover Shannon, David A. Sleper, Henry T. Nguyen: Soybean; Rod Snowdon, Wilfried Lühs, Wolfgang Friedt: Oilseed Rape; S. L. Dwivedi, David John Bertioli, J. H. Crouch, J. F. Valls, H. D. Upadhyaya, A Favero, M. Moretzsohn, A. H. Paterson: Peanut; Norma Paniego, Ruth Heinz, Paula Fernandez, Paola Talia, Veronica Nishinakamasu, H. Esteban Hopp: Sunflower; David Edwards, Philip A. Salisbury, Wayne A. Burton, Clare J. Hopkins, Jacqueline Batley: Indian Mustard; Pablo Quijada, Jiashu Cao, Xiaowu Wang, M. Hirai, Chitta Kole: Brassica rapa; Sandip Das, Ulf Lagercrantz, Martin Lascoux: Black Mustard; Chris A. Cullis: Flax.