title: Crop evolution: from genetics to genomics.
abstract: The advent of the genomics age has greatly facilitated the study of crop evolution. While full-scale genome sequencing projects are underway for just a handful of crop plants, recent years have witnessed a tremendous increase in the availability of DNA sequence data for virtually all major crops. Such resources have bolstered 'traditional' genetic approaches such as QTL mapping and candidate gene-based association studies. They have also allowed us to undertake genome-wide analyses in which we simultaneously consider the importance of a large and essentially random collection of genes. These sorts of analyses promise a more or less unbiased view of the genetic basis of crop evolution and will probably result in the identification of agronomically important genes that would have otherwise been overlooked.
authors.affiliation: University of Georgia, Department of Plant Biology, Miller Plant Sciences Building, Athens, GA 30602, USA. jmburke@uga.edu
authors.forename: John M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Burke
authors.forename: Jutta C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Burger
authors.forename: Mark A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Chapman
mesh_terms: D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D018556:Crops, Agricultural / Q000235:genetics*; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D023281:Genomics; D015810:Linkage Disequilibrium; D040641:Quantitative Trait Loci; D012641:Selection, Genetic