Molecular Transcript (EST) Maps
With the emphasis on functional genomics research, and with accumulation of EST data for number of plant genome, efforts were also underway at the beginning of the present century to prepare transcript maps in crop plants. These maps could be genetic, cytogenetic or physical in nature. A composite map with 272 loci (spread over 1573 cM) of the expressed sequences and phenotypic traits in sunflower was published in 1999. The construction of this map involved anonymous cDNA markers.


