Abstract

Crop plants not only have economic significance, but also comprise important botanical models for evolution and development. This is reflected by the recent increase in the percentage of publicly available sequence data that are derived from angiosperms. Further genome sequencing of the major crop plants will offer new learning opportunities, but their large, repetitive, and often polyploid genomes present challenges. Reduced-representation approaches — such as EST sequencing, methyl filtration and Cot-based cloning and sequencing — provide increased efficiency in extracting key information from crop genomes without full-genome sequencing. Combining these methods with phylogenetically stratified sampling to allow comparative genomic approaches has the potential to further accelerate progress in angiosperm genomics.

Author affiliations

1. Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA.
   Email: paterson@dogwood.botany.uga.edu

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