Rice Functional Genomics : Challenges, Progress and Prospects

This book details rice functional genomics. It takes a multi-pronged genome-wide approach using structural similarities, expression profiles, and mutant phenotypes. Coverage includes the current status of genome sequencing and annotation.

Rice Genome Sequence: The Foundation for Understanding the Genetic Systems.- Rice Genome Annotation: Beginnings of Functional Genomics.- Genome-Wide RNA Expression Profiling in Rice.- Rice Proteomics: A Step Toward Functional Analysis of the Rice Genome.- Metabolomics: Enabling Systems-Level Phenotyping in Rice Functional Genomics.- Use of Naturally Occurring Alleles for Crop Improvement.- Chemical- and Irradiation-Induced Mutants and TILLING.- T-DNA Insertion Mutants as a Resource for Rice Functional Genomics.- Transposon Insertional Mutants: A Resource for Rice Functional Genomics.- Gene Targeting by Homologous Recombination for Rice Functional Genomics.- RNA Silencing and Its Application in Functional Genomics.- Activation Tagging Systems in Rice.- Informatics Resources for Rice Functional Genomics.- The Oryza Map Alignment Project (OMAP): A New Resource for Comparative Genome Studies within Oryza.- Application of Functional Genomics Tools for Crop Improvement.- From Rice to Other Cereals: Comparative Genomics.