Plant genomics : methods and protocols / edited by Daryl J. Somers, Peter Langridge and J. Perry Gustafson. — Totowa, N.J. : Humana, c2009. – (58.17/M592/v.513)

Contents

        Contents
    
    1 Role of Model Plant Species
    2 New Technologies for Ultra-High Throughput Genotyping in Plants 19
    3 Genetic Maps and the Use of Synteny 41
    4 A Simple TAE-Based Method to Generate Large Insert BAC Libraries from Plant Species 57
    5 Transcript Profiling and Expression Level Mapping 81
    6 Methods for Functional Proteomic Analyses
    7 Stable Transformation of Plants 111
    8 Transient Transformation of Plants
    9 Bridging the Gene-to-Function Knowledge Gap Through Functional Genomics 153
    10 Heterologous and Cell-Free Protein Expression Systems 175
    11 Functional Genomics and Structural Biology in the definition of Gene Function 199
    12 In situ Analysis of Gene Expression in Plants 229
    13 Plant and Crop Databases 243
    14 Plant Genome Annotation Methods 263
    15 Molecular Plant Breeding: Methodology and Achievements
    16 Practical Delivery of Genes to the Marketplace
    17 Ecological Genomics of Natural Plant Populations: The Israeli Perspective 32l
    18 Genome Sequencing Approaches and Successes
    Index