A genomics approach to crop pest and disease research.

Genome-wide analyses of gene function and gene expression are beginning to yield valuable information in many areas of biological research, and these genomic tools are now being applied to crop pest and disease research. DNA sequencing of cDNA libraries to generate sets of expressed sequence tags (ESTs) are allowing gene compendiums for crop diseases to be compiled. Annotation of such data collections is also providing a wealth of functional information about gene products through similarities to proteins with known function. The next phase of the functional genomics era will be to employ large-scale techniques to knock out or silence genes in order to synthesize gene-specific mutants for phenotypic analysis and to use micro-array methodology to analyze global gene expression, protein turnover and protein processing during the processes of parasitism and colonization. Application of these technologies promises to accelerate the pace that biological information relevant to crop protection accrues. The ability of researchers to assimilate this information into complex models and workable hypotheses is, thus, set to revolutionize the way we study pests and diseases of crop plants.

Keon J ，Curtis R ，Cabrera H ，Hargreaves J ... -  《PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE》

Functional genomics in a non-model crop: transcriptomics or proteomics?

Carpentier SC ，Coemans B ，Podevin N ，Laukens K ，Witters E ，Matsumura H ，Terauchi R ，Swennen R ，Panis B ... -  《-》

Microarray expression profiling resources for plant genomics.

Rensink WA ，Buell CR 《TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE》

Emerging trends in the functional genomics of the abiotic stress response in crop plants.

Vij S ，Tyagi AK 《-》

Genomic resources in horticultural crops: status, utility and challenges.

A significant review of status and availability of genomic resources in horticultural crops can be utilized for the efficient exploitation of the current research in developing improved varieties and also defining future goals. In this review, we describe the current genomic resources available in major horticultural crops and utility of the genomic and genic sequence information for isolating and characterizing novel useful genes and designing new DNA markers. We have found that these genomic resources have been utilized for both basic and applied research; however the progress is relatively slow. Recent advances in automation and high throughput techniques used in decoding plant genomes play an important role to speed up the genomic research. With the establishment of genome and transcriptome sequencing projects for several horticultural crops, huge wealth of sequence information have been generated. These sequence information have been used extensively for analyzing and understanding genome structures and complexities, comparative and functional genomics and to mine useful genes and molecular markers. However, certain limitations present a number of challenges for the generation and utilization of genomic resources in many important crops.

Sonah H ，Deshmukh RK ，Singh VP ，Gupta DK ，Singh NK ，Sharma TR ... -  《-》