Plant Functional Genomics

• Finding Genes in Complex Plant Systems.- An Improved Method for Plant BAC Library Construction.- Constructing Gene-Enriched Plant Genomic Libraries Using Methylation Filtration Technology.- RescueMu Protocols for Maize Functional Genomics.- Precious Cells Contain Precious Information.- Combined ESTs from Plant-Microbe Interactions.- In Silico Prediction of Plant Gene Function.- Computer Software to Find Genes in Plant Genomic DNA.- Genomic Colinearity as a Tool for Plant Gene Isolation.- Using Natural Allelic Diversity to Evaluate Gene Function.- Quantitative Trait Locus Analysis as a Gene Discovery Tool.- Forward and Reverse Genetic Strategies.- Transposon Tagging Using Activator (Ac) in Maize.- T-DNA Mutagenesis in Arabidopsis.- Physical and Chemical Mutagenesis.- High-Throughput TILLING for Functional Genomics.- Gene and Enhancer Traps for Gene Discovery.- High-Throughput TAIL-PCR as a Tool to Identify DNA Flanking Insertions.- Custom Knock-Outs with Hairpin RNA-Mediated Gene Silencing.- Virus-Induced Gene Silencing.- Exploring the Potential of Plant RNase P as a Functional Genomics Tool.- Maintaining Collections of Mutants for Plant Functional Genomics.- Gain of Function Approaches.- Vector Construction for Gene Overexpression as a Tool to Elucidate Gene Function.- T-DNA Activation Tagging.- Phenotypic Profiling as a Tool to Determine Gene Function.- Expression Profiling Using cDNA Microarrays.- Open Architecture Expression Profiling of Plant Transcriptomes and Gene Discovery Using GeneCalling® Technology.- Proteomics as a Functional Genomics Tool.- Metabolite Profiling as a Functional Genomics Tool.- Growth Stage-Based Phenotypic Profiling of Plants.

"...provides in a single volume most of the commonly used approaches in plant genomics...worth reading and should interest a large public." - Proteomics "This well written and illustrated guide reads easily and provides detailed protocols and an up-to-date bibliography for all reviewed strategies, making it the book that everybody in this field would need." - Cell Biochem Funct