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Seed genomics: germinating opportunities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2007

A. (Lonneke)  and
H.M. van der Geest
A. (Lonneke)
Affiliation:
Business Unit Plant Development and Reproduction, Plant Research International B.V., PO Box 16, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
H.M. van der Geest*
Affiliation:
Business Unit Plant Development and Reproduction, Plant Research International B.V., PO Box 16, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
*
*Correspondence Tel: +31 317 476990 Email: a.h.m.vandergeest@plant.wag-ur.nl
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Abstract

With the sequencing of the Arabidopsis thaliana genome, the field of plant biology has made a quantum leap. The sequence information available to the community has greatly facilitated the identification of genes responsible for mutant phenotypes and the large-scale analysis of gene expression in Arabidopsis. High-throughput laboratory tools for DNA sequencing (genomics), mutant analysis (functional genomics), mRNA quantification (transcriptomics) and protein analysis (proteomics) are being used to scrutinize this model plant. For seed physiologists, the challenge lies in translating this information into physiological processes in seeds from other plant species. Combining more traditional seed biology with the new high-throughput molecular tools should yield breakthroughs in seed science.

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functional genomicsproteomicsseed biologytranscriptomics

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Seed Science Research , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , September 2002 , pp. 145 - 153
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2002

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