The long - term goal of this program is to understand the structure, organization and function of
plant genomes important to agriculture, the environment, energy and health.
Not exact matches
These workshops have presented an
important opportunity to bring together scientists who are contributing actively to topics such as aquaculture, farmed animal biotechnology, biodiversity,
plant genome research, cellular microbiology, and AIDS vaccine research and diagnostics.
the new information enabled the researchers to clarify aspects of the barley
genome that are
important in the context of
genome evolution and for practical use of
genome knowledge by
plant breeders and basic researchers — namely, the locations of gene - rich regions including some that have low recombination
First discovered in
plants about 60 years ago, they are now known to make up more than 40 percent of the entire human
genome and may play an
important role in
genome evolution (pdf).
SNPs are the most common type of genetic variation in
plant and animal
genomes and are, thus, an
important resource to biologists.
SNPs are the most common type of genetic variation in
plant and animal
genomes and are, thus, an
important...
They have also had an
important role in projects to sequence the flowering
plant Arabidopsis thaliana (the first
plant genome sequence), the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, as well as the human
genome and other
important genomes.
Annotation of
genomes — determining the genetic sequence and gene functions — of
plants that are
important to farmers in these regions would help speed crop improvement.