Rice Functional Genomics: Challenges, Progress and Prospects covers the whole spectrum of rice functional genomics.

In addition to overviews of the current status of genome sequencing and annotation, various chapters describe the tools and resources being developed worldwide such as:

• expressed sequence tags (ESTs)
• full-length cDNAs
• gene expression profiles (transcriptome, proteome and metabolome)
• chemical- and radiation-induced mutants
• TILLING resources
• insertional knockout mutants (T-DNA, transposon and retrotransposon)
• activation tags

Exploitation of naturally occurring alleles, Oryza map alignments, gene targeting by homologous recombination and gene silencing by RNAi as well as the application of functional genomics tools for crop improvement and the power of comparative genomics are covered in separate chapters.

Various bioinformatics tools and resources pertinent to rice functional genomics are also described and discussed.

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Rice Genome Sequence: The Foundation for Understanding
3. Rice Genome Annotation: Beginnings of Functional Genomics
4. Genome-Wide RNA Expression Profiling in Rice
5. Rice Proteomics: A Step Toward Functional Analysis
6. Metabolomics: Enabling Systems-Level Phenotyping in Rice Functional Genomics
7. Use of Naturally Occurring Alleles for Crop Improvement
8. Chemical- and Irradiation-Induced Mutants and TILLING
9. T-DNA Insertion Mutants as a Resource for Rice Functional Genomics
10. Transposon Insertional Mutants: A Resource for Rice
11. Gene Targeting by Homologous Recombination for Rice
12. RNA Silencing and Its Application in Functional Genomics
13. Activation Tagging Systems in Rice
14. Informatics Resources for Rice Functional Genomics
15. The Oryza Map Alignment Project (OMAP): A New Resource
16. Application of Functional Genomics Tools for Crop Improvement
17. From Rice to Other Cereals: Comparative Genomics

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