title: Plant genome sequencing - applications for crop improvement.
abstract: It is over 10 years since the genome sequence of the first crop was published. Since then, the number of crop genomes sequenced each year has increased steadily. The amazing pace at which genome sequences are becoming available is largely due to the improvement in sequencing technologies both in terms of cost and speed. Modern sequencing technologies allow the sequencing of multiple cultivars of smaller crop genomes at a reasonable cost. Though many of the published genomes are considered incomplete, they nevertheless have proved a valuable tool to understand important crop traits such as fruit ripening, grain traits and flowering time adaptation.
authors.affiliation: RWTH Aachen University, IBMG Institute for Botany and Molecular Genetics, Aachen, Germany.
authors.forename: Marie E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Bolger
authors.affiliation: CeBiTec, Department of Biology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.
authors.forename: Bernd
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Weisshaar
authors.affiliation: Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Stadt Seeland (OT) Gatersleben, Germany.
authors.forename: Uwe
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Scholz
authors.affiliation: Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Stadt Seeland (OT) Gatersleben, Germany.
authors.forename: Nils
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Stein
authors.affiliation: RWTH Aachen University, IBMG Institute for Botany and Molecular Genetics, Aachen, Germany; IBG-2: Plant Sciences, Institute for Bio- and Geosciences, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany. Electronic address: usadel@bio1.rwth-aachen.de.
authors.forename: Björn
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Usadel
authors.affiliation: MIPS, Institute for Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Center Munich, Neuherberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Klaus F X
authors.initials: KF
authors.lastname: Mayer
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends*; D000818:Animals; D018556:Crops, Agricultural / Q000235:genetics* / Q000254:growth & development; D018745:Genome, Plant / Q000235:genetics*; D023281:Genomics / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D006109:Poaceae / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends