Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Minireview cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Applying plant genomics to crop improvement. | Meeting report Applying plant genomics to crop improvement Michael Bevan and Robbie Waugh Addresses John Innes Centre Colney Lane Norwich NR4 7UH UK. Scottish Crop Research Institute Invergowrie Dundee DD2 5DA UK. Correspondence Michael Bevan. E-mail Published 15 February 2007 Genome Biology 2007 8 302 doi gb-2007-8-2-302 The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at http 2007 8 2 302 2007 BioMed Central Ltd A report of the European Science Foundation-Wellcome Trust Conference on Crop Genomics Trait Analysis and Breeding Hinxton UK 8-11 November 2006. Nearly 150 scientists and industrialists attended a recent meeting outside Cambridge to review progress in the application of genomics to crop plant improvement. The meeting covered a wide range of topics from genome sequencing methods to marker-assisted breeding for wheat improvement. In her opening address Julia Goodfellow Biotechnological and Biological Sciences Research Council Swindon UK described the increasing need for more healthy and nutritious food produced in environmentally sustainable ways and the need to translate the fruits of basic research in model species into crop improvement. The meeting established that such a research pipeline is a high priority and that genomics provides the means to achieve it. Crop plants often have large and complex genomes the maize genome for example is around gigabase pairs 109 base pairs approximately the same size as that of humans. Richard McCombie Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory New York USA described the remarkable progress being made in maize genome sequencing at Washington University in St Louis by Richard Wilson and colleagues. Their strategy is to sequence 19 000 bacterial artificial chromosome clones BACs from the minimal tiling path -the minimum number of overlapping clones that cover the whole genome - to finish the sequence and to annotate it. One year into the .
