Delseny Michel
Laboratoire Génome et Développement des Plantes UMR 5096 CNRS-IRD-UP, Université de Perpignan, 66860 Perpignan, France.
J Soc Biol. 2002;196(4):297-301.
This report illustrates development of plant sequencing programmes. So far Arabidopsis genome has been completely sequenced and a draft of the rice genome is available. The Arabidopsis programmes stimulated sequencing of EST (expressed sequence tags) from numerous cultivated species thus creating an enormous resource. The major challenge is now to correctly annotate all the genes in Arabidopsis and find out a biological and biochemical function for each one. The availability of EST and genome sequence now allows one to analyse the expression of genes at the level of the whole genome.
本报告阐述了植物测序计划的发展。到目前为止，拟南芥基因组已被完全测序，水稻基因组草图也已可得。拟南芥计划推动了对众多栽培物种的EST（表达序列标签）进行测序，从而创造了巨大的资源。现在的主要挑战是正确注释拟南芥中的所有基因，并找出每个基因的生物学和生化功能。EST和基因组序列的可得性现在使人们能够在全基因组水平上分析基因的表达。
