Plants have developed effective mechanisms to recognize and respond to infections caused
by pathogens. Plant resistance gene analogs (RGAs), as resistance (R) gene candidates …

Key message Recent advances in Setaria genomics appear promising for genetic
improvement of cereals and biofuel crops towards providing multiple securities to the …

The genus Oryza is a model system for the study of molecular evolution over time scales
ranging from a few thousand to 15 million years. Using 13 reference genomes spanning the …

Abstract The Gene Ontology (GO; http://www. geneontology. org) is a community-based
bioinformatics resource that supplies information about gene product function using …

Zea mays is an important genetic model for elucidating transcriptional networks.
Uncertainties about the complete structure of mRNA transcripts limit the progress of research …

Abstract Expression Atlas (http://www. ebi. ac. uk/gxa) provides information about gene and
protein expression in animal and plant samples of different cell types, organism parts …

Evolution provides the unifying framework with which to understand biology. The coherent
investigation of genic and genomic data often requires comparative genomics analyses …

Plant metabolism underpins many traits of ecological and agronomic importance. Plants
produce numerous compounds to cope with their environments but the biosynthetic …

Abstract Ensembl Genomes (http://www. ensemblgenomes. org) is an integrating resource
for genome-scale data from non-vertebrate species, complementing the resources for …

Abstract Ensembl Plants (http://plants. ensembl. org) is an integrative resource presenting
genome-scale information for a growing number of sequenced plant species (currently 33) …