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Plant Genomics

1. Construction of Molecular Maps and Synteny (Collinearity)
The detection and exploitation of naturally occurring DNA sequence polymprphisms represent one of the most significant development in molecular biology. Earlier in the techniques of development of molecular markers like RFLP, RAPD, AFLP, SSR, STS (sequence tagged site) and EST (expressed sequence tag) were described. The preparation of the molecular maps using these markers for animal genomes was described in the preparation of similar molecular maps in crop plants has been a priority area of research in plant biotechnology also.

The utility of these maps for crop improvement programmes has been emphasized during 1980s, so that the molecular maps have already been prepared for all major crop species. The techniques of the use of molecular markers have also proved useful for characterization of crop varieties and plant genetic resources through DNA fingerprinting. More recently YAC and BAC physical maps have also been prepared and used for ‘clone to clone’ genome sequencing. These aspects of plant biotechnology will be briefly discussed in this chapter (for details of molecular markers, for methods involved in preparation and use of BAC/YAC maps for whole genome sequencing).

 

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