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Synthesis: Fundamental Insights and Practical Applications from the Saccharinae Clade

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Genomics of the Saccharinae

Part of the book series: Plant Genetics and Genomics: Crops and Models ((PGG,volume 11))

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The Saccharinae clade offers both opportunities to improve the efficiency and sustainability at which we convert solar energy and other resources into food, feed, fiber, and fuel and to gain new insights into the ecology, evolution, and function of plant species, their genomes, and their constituent genes. Singular features of biogeography, productivity, and stress tolerance of key Saccharinae taxa fit particularly well with existing or anticipated needs of agriculture. Sorghum holds particular promise as a botanical model for the clade, albeit with more complex genomes in the clade also offering intriguing opportunities to clarify roles of polyploidy in agricultural productivity and post-polyploidy evolution.

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Paterson, A.H. (2013). Synthesis: Fundamental Insights and Practical Applications from the Saccharinae Clade. In: Paterson, A. (eds) Genomics of the Saccharinae. Plant Genetics and Genomics: Crops and Models, vol 11. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5947-8_23

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