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Annotation of Plant Gene Function via Combined Genomics, Metabolomics and Informatics
Published on: June 17, 2012
Mapping genes for plant structure, development and evolution: functional mapping meets ontology
Qiuling He1, Arthur Berg, Yao Li
1The Key Laboratory of Forest Genetics and Gene Engineering, College of Forest Resources and Environment, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, JS 210037, China.
Abstract:
One of the fundamental tasks in biology is the identification of genes that control the structure and developmental pattern of complex traits and their responses to the environment during trait development. Functional mapping provides a statistical means for detecting quantitative trait loci (QTLs) that underlie developmental traits, such as growth trajectories, and for testing the interplay between gene action and development. Here we describe how functional mapping and studies of plant ontology can be integrated so as to elucidate the expression mechanisms of QTLs that control plant growth, morphology, development, and adaptation to changing environments. This approach can also be used to construct an evo-devo framework for inferring the evolution of developmental traits.
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