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Plant Functional Genomics - Methods and Protocols (Hardcover, 2003 ed.)
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Plant Functional Genomics - Methods and Protocols (Hardcover, 2003 ed.)
Series: Methods in Molecular Biology, 236
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Functional genomics is a young discipline whose origin can be
traced back to the late 1980s and early 1990s, when molecular tools
became available to determine the cellular functions of genes.
Today, functional genomics is p- ceived as the analysis, often
large-scale, that bridges the structure and organi- tion of genomes
and the assessment of gene function. The completion in 2000 of the
genome sequence of Arabidopsis thaliana has created a number of new
and exciting challenges in plant functional genomics. The immediate
task for the plant biology community is to establish the functions
of the approximately 25,000 genes present in this model plant. One
major issue that will remain even after this formidable task is c-
pleted is establishing to what degree our understanding of the
genome of one model organism, such as the dicot Arabidopsis,
provides insight into the or- nization and function of genes in
other plants. The genome sequence of rice, completed in 2002 as a
result of the synergistic interaction of the private and public
sectors, promises to significantly enrich our knowledge of the
general organization of plant genomes. However, the tools available
to investigate gene function in rice are lagging behind those
offered by other model plant systems. Approaches available to
investigate gene function become even more limited for plants other
than the model systems of Arabidopsis, rice, and maize.
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