The Common Bean Genome

1. Common Bean: Economic Importance and Relevance to Biological Science Research
James R. Myers, Ken Kmiecik

2. Domestication and Crop History
Valerio Di Vittori, Elisa Bellucci, Elena Bitocchi, Domenico Rau, Monica Rodriguez, Maria Leonarda Murgia, Laura Nanni, Giovanna Attene, Roberto Papa

3. Cytogenetics and Comparative Analysis of Phaseolus Species
Artur Fonsêca, Andrea Pedrosa-Harand

4. Genetic Mapping and QTL Analysis in Common Bean
Ana M. González, Fernando J. Yuste-Lisbona, Antonia Fernández-Lozano, Rafael Lozano, Marta Santalla

5. Requirement of Whole-Genome Sequencing
Martha Rendón-Anaya, Alfredo Herrera-Estrella

6. Common Bean Genomes: Mining New Knowledge of a Major Societal Crop
Phillip E. McClean, Bodo Raatz

7. Organelle Genomes in Phaseolus Beans and Their Use in Evolutionary Studies
Maria I. Chacón Sánchez

8. Phytic Acid Biosynthesis and Transport in Phaseolus vulgaris: Exploitation of New Genomic Resources
Eleonora Cominelli, Gregorio Orozco-Arroyo, Francesca Sparvoli

9. What Is Present at Common Bean Subtelomeres? Large Resistance Gene Clusters, Knobs and Khipu Satellite DNA
Manon M. S. Richard, Vincent Thareau, Nicolas W. G. Chen, Chouaib Meziadi, Stéphanie Pflieger, Valérie Geffroy

10. Comparison of Gene Families: Seed Storage and Other Seed Proteins
Jaya Joshi, Sudhakar Pandurangan, Marwan Diapari, Frédéric Marsolais

11. A Comparison of Phenylpropanoid Pathway Gene Families in Common Bean. Focus on P450 and C4H Genes
Yarmilla Reinprecht, Gregory E. Perry, K. Peter Pauls

12. Phylogenomics: The Evolution of Common Bean as Seen from the Perspective of All of Its Genes
Salvador Capella-Gutiérrez, Anna Vlasova, Toni Gabaldón

13. Prospects: The Importance of Common Bean as a Model Crop
Marcelino Pérez de la Vega, Marta Santalla, Frédéric Marsolais

Keywords: Life Sciences, Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Plant Genetics and Genomics, Agriculture, Bioinformatics