"Frontmatter". In: Plant Genomics and Proteomics

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F T E R W O R D
The main point to make after all the descriptions of technology contained
here is not to lose sight of the main goal, that is, to understand the biology.
As Sydney Brenner so succinctly put it at the Plant and Animal Genome
Meeting in January 2003:
Forget about the genome and get on with the biology.
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Plant Genomics and Proteomics, by Christopher A. Cullis
ISBN 0-471-37314-1 Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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Abiotic interactions, of plants, 141–144
Ac transposon, 82, 85
Adh1-F region, 11
Africa, genetically modified organisms
in, 193–196
Agrobacterium tumefaciens, 28, 93
Aligned gene maps, 17, 18
Alleles, 147
Allopolyploidy, genome size and, 
13–14
Alternative splicing, 112
Amino acid, sequence from proteomics
experiments, 121, 122
Amplified fragment length
polymorphisms (AFLPs), 149, 151
techniques using, 2–3
Annotation, 77–78, 79
informatics for, 174–179
AP1/EREBP gene family, 97
Arabidopsis, 54, 55, 57, 70, 95, 119, 120
annotated genome of, 78
centromeres of, 12–13, 19
complete genome sequencing of, x–xi,
xii, xiii, 3, 47, 49, 53
genome size of, 2
genome variation in, 7–10, 15
GUS activity in, 82, 84–85
Miropeats analysis of, 174, 177, 178
molecular maps for, 149
mycorrhizal fungi and, 139
pathogen resistance mechanisms of,
135, 136
phenotypic effects of genes in, 147
sequencing strategies for, 64–65
T-DNA insertion in, 81
transcription factor families in, 96,
97–98
Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center
(ABRC), 81
Arabidopsis gene DDM1, 102
Arabidopsis Knockout Facility, 81
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, 138–139
ARF-Aux/IAA gene family, 98
Automated sequencing strategies, 38
Autopolyploidy, genome size and,
13–14
Avirulence (Avr) genes, 133–135
Avr-Pita protein, 137
BAC clones, 12, 27
in automated sequencing strategies, 38
data processing and, 63
in MTP sequencing, 59, 60, 61
physical mapping and, 51–53
BAC contigs, genome fractionation via
enriched, 58
BAC end sequencing, 59–61
BAC F16P2, 8, 9
Backcross breeding schemes, in marker-
assisted selection, 160–162
BAC libraries, 28–32
generation of, 28–30
in QTL identification, 155
utilization of, 30–32
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