Genetics and Genomics of Papaya

Part I. Natural History and Genetic Diversity

1. Papaya (Carica papaya L.): Origin, Domestication, and Production
Gabriela Fuentes, Jorge M. Santamaría

2. Biology of the Papaya Plant
Víctor M. Jiménez, Eric Mora-Newcomer, Marco V. Gutiérrez-Soto

3. Phenotypic and Genetic Diversity of Papaya
Paul H. Moore

4.
Vasconcellea for Papaya Improvement
Geo Coppens d’Eeckenbrugge, Rod Drew, Tina Kyndt, Xavier Scheldeman

5. The Phylogeny of the Caricaceae
Fernanda Antunes Carvalho, Susanne S. Renner

Part II. Classical and Molecular Genetics and Breeding

6. History and Future of the Solo Papaya
Richard Manshardt

7. Hawaii’s Transgenic Papaya Story 1978–2012: A Personal Account
Dennis Gonsalves

8. Molecular Genetic Mapping of Papaya
Jennifer Han, Ray Ming

9. Molecular Cytogenetics of Papaya
Wenli Zhang, Jiming Jiang

10. Physical Map of Papaya Genome
Qingyi Yu

Part III. The Papaya Genome

11. Sequencing and Assembly of the Transgenic Papaya Genome
Robert VanBuren, Ray Ming

12. Syntenic Sequence Conservation Between and Within Papaya Genes
Eric Lyons, Haibao Tang

13. Papaya Repeat Database
Niranjan Nagarajan, Rafael Navajas-Pérez

14. Genomics of Papaya Fruit Development and Ripening
Robert E. Paull, Pingfang Wu, Nancy J. Chen

15. Genomics of Papaya Disease Resistance
Brad W. Porter, David A. Christopher, Yun J. Zhu

16. Genomics of Papaya Sex Chromosomes
Robert VanBuren, Ray Ming

Part IV. Early Applications and Future Prospect

17. Physical Mapping of Papaya Sex Chromosomes
Jianping Wang, Jong-Kuk Na, Ray Ming

18. Cloning Major Genes Controlling Fruit Flesh Color in Papaya
Rishi Aryal, Ray Ming

19. Molecular Markers in Papayas
Chutchamas Kanchana-udomkan, Rebecca Ford, Rod Drew

20. Papaya Nutritional Analysis
Marisa M. Wall, Savarni Tripathi

21. Papaya as a Medicinal Plant
Timothy J. O’Hare, David J. Williams

22. Allele Discovery Platform (ADP) in Papaya (Carica papaya L.)
P. K. Anish Kumar, Anjanabha Bhattacharya, O. P. Dutta, Manash Chatterjee

Keywords: Life Sciences, Plant Sciences, Plant Biochemistry, Plant Anatomy/Development, Plant Physiology, Microbial Genetics and Genomics