Gene discovery for crop improvement
Future improvements of crop plants will benefit from the isolation and characterization of genes that underlie both simply-inherited and polygenically-controlled traits. The molecular isolation of economically important plant genes has been facilitated by the construction and application of genetic maps, transposon-based gene tagging, protein-protein interaction cloning, and the development and analysis of large collections of cDNA sequences.
Martin
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Department of Agronomy Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907-1150, USA gmartin@dept.agry.purdue.edu