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Recent developments in cereal genome analysis include generation of RFLP maps, flow sorting of chromosomes, identification of landmarks for genes and a more advanced model for cereal genome organization. These developments are reviewed together with new prospects for the isolation of defined genes from large cereal genomes and for the production of a composite map of the ancestral grass genome to aid in the genetic analysis of all the Gramineae. The advances that can now come from comparative genome mapping are likely to promote further the new era of plant genetics.
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Moore, G., Gale, M., Kurata, N. et al. Molecular Analysis of Small Grain Cereal Genomes: Current Status and Prospects. Nat Biotechnol 11, 584–589 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0593-584
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