1. Edition - June 2008
179.- Euro
2008. XXVIII, 548 Pages, Hardcover
83 Fig. (38 Colored Fig.), 22 Tab. 
- Handbook/Reference Book -
ISBN-10: 3-527-31885-2
ISBN-13: 978-3-527-31885-8 - Wiley-VCH, Weinheim






Content

Sample Chapter

Index



Short description
Incisive, concise overview of the booming field of plant functional genomics. Kahl and Meksem, two of the leading figures in the field, combine their expertise to give an invaluable reference on the topic, accessible to both experienced practitioners and newcomers to the field.

From the contents
TRANSCRIPTOME ANALYSIS
Single-Cell Expression Profiling
AFLP-based RNA Fingerprinting
The SAGE family: SAGE, LongSAGE and SuperSAGE
DeepCAGE: High-Throughput Gene Expression Analysis for Transcription Start Site and Promoter Identification
Paired End diTagging (GIS-PET) for Transcriptome Characterization
High-Throughput Functional Screening of Genes in planta
Microarrays as Tools to Decipher Transcriptomes in Symbiotic Interactions
BeadArray-based Gene Expression Analysis
Genome-wide Analysis of mRNA expression by Fluorescent Differential Display
Quantitative Real-time RT-PCR

GENE SILENCING, MUTATION ANALYSIS, AND FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS
RNA Interference for Functional Genomics
Extending Functional Genomics: VIGS for Model and Crop Plants
Identification of Expressed Genes by Mutation: TILLING
Identification of Expressed Genes by Mutation: Transposon Tagging
Fast Neutron Mutagenesis

COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS
Bioinformatics Tools to Discover Co-expressed Genes in Plants
Promoter Analysis
Integration and Phylogenomics
Structural, Functional, and Comparative Annotation of Plant Genomes
Large-Scale Genomic Sequence Comparisons and Gene Identification with ClustDB

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
Nanotechnologies and Fluorescent Proteins for Functional Genomics
Next Generation Sequencing Technologies
454 Sequencing for Functional Genomics