The National Plant Genome Initiative : objectives for 2003-2008 / Committee on Objectives of the National Plant Genome Initiative: 2003-2008, Board on Life Sciences, Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Objectives for the National Plant Genome Initiative: 2003-2008.

National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Life Sciences.

National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources.

Conference Name:

Workshop on the National Plant Genome Initiative: 2003-2008 (2002 : Washington, D.C.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plant genome mapping--Research--United States--Planning--Congresses.

Plant genome mapping.

Arabidopsis thaliana--Congresses.

Arabidopsis thaliana.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (91 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The National Plant Genome Initiative was launched in 1998 as a long-term project to explore DNA structure and function in plants so that useful properties of plants can be understood, improved, and ultimately harnessed to address national needs, including agriculture, nutrition, energy and waste reduction. Experts in the community were asked to consider how to build on current accomplishments in order to address major questions in plant biology and to make recommendations for objectives for the next five-year phase of the Initiative.

Contents:

Front Matter

Acknowledgments

Preface

Contents

Executive Summary

Introduction

CHAPTER TWO Sequencing: Generation of the Raw Material

CHAPTER THREE Maximizing the Return from Reference Sequencing: Translational Agriculture

CHAPTER FOUR Functional Exploitation of Genome Sequences

CHAPTER FIVE Genomics and the Major Transitions in Plant Evolution

CHAPTER SIX Development of a National Strategy for Plant Bioinformatics

CHAPTER SEVEN Achieving Interdisciplinary Training

References

APPENDIX A Workshop on the National Plant Genome Initiative: 2003-2008

APPENDIX B Committee Biographies

APPENDIX C Number of Publications in 2000-01 of 50 Most Cultivated Species

Glossary.

Notes:

"The committee organized a workshop at the National Academy of Sciences on June 6-7, 2002"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 53).

ISBN:

9786610183241

9780309168793

0309168791

9781280183249

1280183241

9780309503174

0309503175

OCLC:

1073084138