Agricultural Bioinformatics [1 ed.] 978-81-322-1879-1, 978-81-322-1880-7

Table of contents :
Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Association Mapping: A New Paradigm for Dissection of Complex Traits in Crops....Pages 1-20
The Silent Assassins: Informatics of Plant Viral Silencing Suppressors....Pages 21-32
Tackling the Heat-Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants: A Bioinformatics Approach....Pages 33-57
Comparative Genomics of Cereal Crops: Status and Future Prospects....Pages 59-87
A Comprehensive Overview on Application of Bioinformatics and Computational Statistics in Rice Genomics Toward an Amalgamated Approach for Improving Acquaintance Base....Pages 89-107
Contribution of Bioinformatics to Gene Discovery in Salt Stress Responses in Plants....Pages 109-127
Peanut Bioinformatics: Tools and Applications for Developing More Effective Immunotherapies for Peanut Allergy and Improving Food Safety....Pages 129-137
Plant MicroRNAs: An Overview....Pages 139-159
ESTs in Plants: Where Are We Heading?....Pages 161-170
Bioinformatics Strategies Associated with Important Ethnic Medicinal Plants....Pages 171-178
Mining Knowledge from Omics Data....Pages 179-187
Cloud Computing in Agriculture....Pages 189-213
Bioinformatic Tools in the Analysis of Determinants of Pathogenicity and Ecology of Entomopathogenic Fungi Used as Microbial Insecticides in Crop Protection....Pages 215-234
Exploring the Genomes of Symbiotic Diazotrophs with Relevance to Biological Nitrogen Fixation....Pages 235-257
Plant-Microbial Interaction: A Dialogue Between Two Dynamic Bioentities....Pages 259-272
Machine Learning with Special Emphasis on Support Vector Machines (SVMs) in Systems Biology: A Plant Perspective....Pages 273-281
Xanthine Derivatives: A Molecular Modeling Perspective....Pages 283-291