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From genome studies to agricultural biotechnology: closing the gap between basic plant science and applied agriculture

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pbi.2010.03.003
 
Title From genome studies to agricultural biotechnology: closing the
gap between basic plant science and applied agriculture
 
Creator Cook, D R
Varshney, R K
 
Subject Genetics and Genomics
 
Description In the broad field of plant biology, access to genome technologies and
genome-scale data sets is driving a convergence of subdisciplines that have
been historically separate. For example, the next generation of ecologists
and crop geneticists are just as likely to be concerned about protein
interaction networks that underlie complex phenotypes as they are about
the more abstract genetic and evolutionary processes from which such
phenotypes derive. Then what will be the difference between an ecologist
and a crop geneticist, or a protein biochemist, and a molecular breeder?
Genomics is the primary driver of this unification in the biological sciences,
though the unification is admittedly still in its infancy. The factors driving
this convergence are many, but at a practical level they include first, more
comprehensive and better annotated genome data sets; second, a transition
from the situation where genome technologies were used to generate data
sets accompanied by limited understanding, to a situation where genome
technologies are tools for hypothesis-driven research and the resulting data
sets are synthesized to yield new understandings; third, rapid decreases in
the cost, combined with staggering increases to the scale and accuracy of
genome analyses, especially in the areas of nucleic acid (re)-sequencing and
genotyping technologies; and fourth, increased computational capacity and
new statistical approaches to manage and analyze increasingly large and
complex genome data sets.
 
Publisher Elsevier
 
Date 2010
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/78/1/CurrOpinPlBiol.pdf
Cook, D R and Varshney, R K (2010) From genome studies to agricultural biotechnology: closing the gap between basic plant science and applied agriculture. Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 13 (2). pp. 115-118.