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Unfashionable crop species flourish in the 21st century

Wayne Powell1* and Peter Langridge2

Author Affiliations

1 Scottish Crop Research Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee DD2 5DA, UK

2 The Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics, School of Agriculture and Wine, Waite Campus, University of Adelaide, SA 5064, Australia

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Genome Biology 2004, 5:233 doi:10.1186/gb-2004-5-7-233

Published: 14 June 2004

Abstract

Genome-level studies are contributing to a major renaissance in crop science. In wheat, there are now more than 500,000 expressed sequence tags, and these are being used in conjunction with specially designed deletion stocks to unravel patterns of genome evolution, recombination and polyploid genome behavior.