1 Mapping Populations and Principles of Genetic Mapping (Katharina Schneider).

2 Molecular Marker Systems for Genetic Mapping (Henry T. Nguyen and Xiaolei Wu).

3 Methods and Software for Genetic Mapping (James C. Nelson).

4 Single nucleotide Polymorphisms: Detection Techniques and Their Potential for Genotyping and Genome Mapping (Günter Kahl, Andrea Mast, Nigel Tooke, Richard Shen, and Dirk van den Boom).

5 Breeding By Design: Exploiting Genetic Maps and Molecular Markers Through Marker-assisted Selection (Johan D. Peleman, Anker P. Sørensen, and Jeroen Rouppe van der Voort).

Part II: Physical Mapping.

6 Physical Mapping of Plant Chromosomes (Barbara Hass-Jacobus and Scott A. Jackson).

7 Chromosome Flow Sorting and Physical Mapping (Jaroslav Doležel, Marie Kubaláková, Jan Bartoš, and Jiří Macas).

8 Genomic DNA Libraries and Physical Mapping (Chengwei Ren, Zhanyou Xu, Shuku Sun, Mi-Kyung Lee, Chengcang Wu, Chantel Scheuring, and Hong-Bin Zhang).

9 Integration of Physical and Genetic Maps (Khalid Meksem, Hirofumi Ishihara, and Tacco Jesse).

10 Positional Cloning of Plant Developmental Genes (Peter M. Gresshoff).

11 Whole-genome Physical Mapping: An Overview on Methods for DNA Fingerprinting (Chengcang Wu, Shuku Sun, Mi-Kyung Lee, Zhanyou Xu, Chengwei Ren, Teofila S. Santos, and Hong-Bin Zhang).

12 Software for Restriction Fragment Physical Maps (William Nelson and Carol Soderlund).

13 Reduced Representation Strategies and Their Application to Plant Genomes (Daniel G. Peterson).

14 Large-scale DNA Sequencing (Christopher D. Town).

Glossary.

Subject Index.