title: Genomics and plant breeding.
abstract: Much of our most basic understanding of genetics has its roots in plant genetics and crop breeding. The study of plants has led to important insights into highly conserved biological process and a wealth of knowledge about development. Agriculture is now well positioned to take its share benefit from genomics. The primary sequences of most plant genes will be determined over the next few years. Informatics and functional genomics will help identify those genes that can be best utilized to crop production and quality through genetic engineering and plant breeding. Recent developments in plant genomics are reviewed.
authors.affiliation: Biotechnology Department, Mauritius Sugar Industry Research Institute, Reduit, Mauritius.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Aljanabi
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture; D001709:Biotechnology; D001947:Breeding; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D022202:Chromosomes, Artificial, Bacterial; D018244:Chromosomes, Artificial, Yeast; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D020224:Expressed Sequence Tags; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D005818:Genetic Engineering; D008040:Genetic Linkage; D005819:Genetic Markers; D023281:Genomics; D016296:Mutagenesis; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; D010945:Plants, Edible / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D005819:Genetic Markers