Omics: Opening up the "Black Box" of the Phenotype

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

8-25-2014

Abstract

With a huge range of sequences being deposited in databases, geneticists are faced with a challenge as great as that which propelled the "genomics era": correlating structure with function. This challenge has given rise to functional genomics, the science of the "era of omics." Omics is the neologism used to refer to the fields of biotechnology with the suffix omics: genomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, and physiognomics, among others. In recent years, genetics and omics tools have revolutionized plant breeding, greatly increasing the available knowledge of the genetic factors responsible for complex traits and developing a large amount of resources that can be used in the selection of superior genotypes. Post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS), or RNA interference (RNAi) has assisted the development of transgenic plants capable of suppressing the expression of endogenous genes and foreign nucleic acids.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Omics in Plant Breeding

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1

Last Page

11

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