title: Exploring Genetic Diversity in Plants Using High-Throughput Sequencing Techniques.
abstract: 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.
authors: Cellulose Production Research Team, Biomass Engineering Research Division, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Kanagawa,Japan;; Kihara Institute for Biological Research, Yokohama City University, Kanagawa,Japan;
authors: Yoshihiko
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authors: Onda
authors: Cellulose Production Research Team, Biomass Engineering Research Division, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Kanagawa,Japan;; Kihara Institute for Biological Research, Yokohama City University, Kanagawa,Japan;; Gene Discovery Research Group, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Kanagawa,Japan.
authors: Keiichi
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authors: Mochida
keywords: Crop improvement; GWAS; Genetic diversity; Genotyping; NGS technology; QTL analysis