Grotewold Plant Functional Genomics

Methods and Protocols
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-1-59259-413-9
Verlag: Humana Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 236, 452 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Methods in Molecular Biology

Functional genomics is a young discipline whose origin can be traced back to the late 1980s and early 1990s, when molecular tools became available to determine the cellular functions of genes. Today, functional genomics is p- ceived as the analysis, often large-scale, that bridges the structure and organi- tion of genomes and the assessment of gene function. The completion in 2000 of the genome sequence of Arabidopsis thaliana has created a number of new and exciting challenges in plant functional genomics. The immediate task for the plant biology community is to establish the functions of the approximately 25,000 genes present in this model plant. One major issue that will remain even after this formidable task is c- pleted is establishing to what degree our understanding of the genome of one model organism, such as the dicot Arabidopsis, provides insight into the or- nization and function of genes in other plants. The genome sequence of rice, completed in 2002 as a result of the synergistic interaction of the private and public sectors, promises to significantly enrich our knowledge of the general organization of plant genomes. However, the tools available to investigate gene function in rice are lagging behind those offered by other model plant systems. Approaches available to investigate gene function become even more limited for plants other than the model systems of Arabidopsis, rice, and maize.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grotewold, Erich

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Finding Genes in Complex Plant Systems.- An Improved Method for Plant BAC Library Construction.- Constructing Gene-Enriched Plant Genomic Libraries Using Methylation Filtration Technology.- RescueMu Protocols for Maize Functional Genomics.- Precious Cells Contain Precious Information.- Combined ESTs from Plant-Microbe Interactions.- In Silico Prediction of Plant Gene Function.- Computer Software to Find Genes in Plant Genomic DNA.- Genomic Colinearity as a Tool for Plant Gene Isolation.- Using Natural Allelic Diversity to Evaluate Gene Function.- Quantitative Trait Locus Analysis as a Gene Discovery Tool.- Forward and Reverse Genetic Strategies.- Transposon Tagging Using Activator (Ac) in Maize.- T-DNA Mutagenesis in Arabidopsis.- Physical and Chemical Mutagenesis.- High-Throughput TILLING for Functional Genomics.- Gene and Enhancer Traps for Gene Discovery.- High-Throughput TAIL-PCR as a Tool to Identify DNA Flanking Insertions.- Custom Knock-Outs with Hairpin RNA-Mediated Gene Silencing.- Virus-Induced Gene Silencing.- Exploring the Potential of Plant RNase P as a Functional Genomics Tool.- Maintaining Collections of Mutants for Plant Functional Genomics.- Gain of Function Approaches.- Vector Construction for Gene Overexpression as a Tool to Elucidate Gene Function.- T-DNA Activation Tagging.- Phenotypic Profiling as a Tool to Determine Gene Function.- Expression Profiling Using cDNA Microarrays.- Open Architecture Expression Profiling of Plant Transcriptomes and Gene Discovery Using GeneCalling® Technology.- Proteomics as a Functional Genomics Tool.- Metabolite Profiling as a Functional Genomics Tool.- Growth Stage-Based Phenotypic Profiling of Plants.