The Sesame Genome (Hardcover, 2021)

Economic and Academic Importance.- Botanical descriptions.- Oil composition and nutrition.- Genetic Resources.- Classical Genetics.- Germplasm creation and breeding.- Genetic Inkage maps, mapping of genes and QTLs.- Cytological details of genome.- Structural & functional genomic resources developed.- Requirement of whole-genome sequencing.- Background history of the national and international genome initiatives, public and private partners involved.- Strategies & tools for sequencing.- Enumeration of sequences.- Assembly.- Repetitive sequences.- Gene annotation.- Genome duplication.- Synteny with allied & model genomes.- Comparison of gene families.- Impact on germplasm characterization & gene discovery.- Impact on plant breeding.- Future Prospects.