Summarizes the state-of-the-art in barley genome analysis

Discusses new tools for barley research and crop improvement Stresses the importance of barley as a genetic model

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Summarizes the state-of-the-art in barley genome analysis Discusses new tools for barley research and crop improvement Stresses the importance of barley as a genetic model

Zusammenfassung

Summarizes the state-of-the-art in barley genome analysis

Discusses new tools for barley research and crop improvement Stresses the importance of barley as a genetic model

Inhalt

Economic/academic importance of barley, Background history of the national and international genome initiatives.- Taxonomy and botanical descriptions.- Cytogenetics and genetic stocks for physical mapping and sequencing.- Chromosomal genomics of barley and wild relatives.- Physical and optical mapping.- Sequencing, assembly & state of the art of available sequences.- Gene Annotation.- Expressed portion of the barley genome.- Sequence diversity and structural variation.- The repetitive sequences of barley.- Comparative genomics of barley and related species.- Molecular mapping and cloning of genes and QTLs.- Genomics approaches to mining barley germplasm collections & Genome sequence-based enabling tools.- Genetics and genomics of barley inflorescence architecture.- Genetics and genomics of whole plant morphology and architecture.- Genomic view of biotic stress resistance.- Genomic view of abiotic stress resistance.- Genomics based barley breeding.- Barley domestication, adaptation and population genomics.- The genomics of the secondary and tertiary genepools of barley.- Barley genome and proteomics.- Organellar genomes of barley.- Bioinformatic resources for the barley genome.- Future prospects.