GENOME BIOLOGY OF RAPESEED AND MUSTARD

Rapeseed and mustard are multipurpose crops §traditionally cultivated in almost all of the §agroecosystems of the world. All parts of the §rapeseed and mustard plants can be used as food, §fodder, feed, salad, condiment or traditional §medicine etc. Genetic improvement of these crops §has played an important role in livelihood §improvement of people of the developed world. §Mustard seed is nowadays viewed in the prism of §biofuel, which needs proper genetic manipulation. §This book is an outcome of a PhD project of §University of the Punjab, Lahore. It explores genome §relationship of the cultivated oilseed of the genus §Brassica. The tools employed for elucidating genome §biology included the results obtained from §interspecific hybridization, preferential pairing §within and among the induced auto and amphiploid §sporocytes. Depending upon the crossibility §patterns, genomic interactions at amphiploid and §autotetraploid levels, and chromosomal behavior §during diploidization of polyploids; the origin of §rapeseed and mustard is elaborated.