Contributors ix 1. Daniel Zohary: Geneticist and Explorer of Plant Domestication 1 Giora Simchen I. Early Days 2 II. Genetic Relationships among Related Plant Species 3 III. Domestication of Crops and Fruit Trees 4 IV. The Scientific Approach and Methodology of Daniel Zohary 6 V. The Book 7 VI. Awards, Honors, and Recognition 8 VII.

Personality 9 Literature Cited and Selected Publications of Daniel Zohary 10 2. The Use of Association Genetics Approaches in Plant Breeding 17 María F. Álvarez, Teresa Mosquera, and Matthew W. Blair I. Introduction 19 II. Advantages of Association Mapping Approaches 20 III. Methods of Association Genetics 26 IV. Examples of Association Mapping 34 V.

Software for Data Analysis 46 VI. Association Mapping Compared with Linkage Mapping 48 VII. Genome-Wide Selection and Genomic Selection 52 VIII. Outlook 54 Acknowledgments 57 Literature Cited 57 3. Epigenetics Connects the Genome to Its Environment 69 Ray A. Bressan, Jian-Kang Zhu, Michael J. Van Oosten, Albino Maggio, Hans J. Bohnert, and Viswanathan Chinnusamy I.

Introduction 71 II. Historical Perspective and Conceptual Framework 72 III. Epigenetics 80 IV. Epigenetic Memory 90 V. Sex, Epigenetics, and the Genome 93 VI. Adaptation is a Form of Development 102 VII. Evolution: The Engine of Ideas 108 Acknowledgments 121 Literature Cited 121 4. Peanut Improvement for Human Health 143 Sangam Dwivedi, Naveen Puppala, Soheila Maleki, Peggy Ozias-Akins, and Rodomiro Ortiz I.

Introduction 146 II. Genetic Variability for Nutritional Traits 149 III. Peanut Allergens 153 IV. Predicting Seed Quality and Allergens 156 V. Genetic and Molecular Bases of High Oleate Trait 159 VI. Sequencing the Peanut Genome and Implications in Breeding 159 VII. Transgene(s) to Produce Nutrient-Dense and Toxin and Allergen-Free Peanuts 161 VIII. Breeding Opportunities 165 IX.

Outlook 169 Acknowledgments 171 Literature Cited 171 5. Rice Breeding in Latin America 187 César P. Martínez, Edgar A. Torres, Marc Chatel, Gloria Mosquera, Jorge Duitama, Manabu Ishitani, Michael Selvaraj, Beata Dedicova, Joe Tohme, Cécile Grenier, Mathias Lorieux, Maribel Cruz, Luis Berrío, Edgar Corredor, Gonzalo Zorrilla de San Martin, Flavio Breseghello, Orlando Peixoto, Jose Manoel Colombari Filho, Adriano Pereira de Castro, Sergio Iraçu Gindri Lopes, Mara Barbosa, Gustavo Rodrigo Daltrozzo Funck, Pedro Blanco, Fernando Pérez de Vida, Federico Molina, Juan Rosas, Sebastián Martínez, Victoria Bonnecarrere, Silvia Garaycochea, Gonzalo Carracelas, Alfredo Marin, Fernando Correa-Victoria, Ismael Camargo, and Carlos Bernardo Bruzzone I. Introductory Remarks 192 II. The CIAT Rice Program 194 III. Advances in Population Improvement in Latin America and the Caribbean 202 IV. Genetics and Genomics Approaches to Improve Rice Breeding 206 V.

Breeding for Resistance to Rice Pathogens 216 VI. Breeding for Adaptation to Abiotic Stresses 223 VII. Hybrid Rice Breeding 230 VIII. Rice Breeding Programs 234 IX. Perspectives and Future Directions 265 Literature Cited 266 Subject Index 279 Cumulative Subject Index 281 Cumulative Contributor Index 307.