ABSTRACT
The technologies available for genomics have continued to develop rapidly since 2000, accelerating their application in plant biology and plant breeding. These technologies are providing the tools to allow costeffective collection of much larger volumes of data on plant genomes. This, in turn, requires the development of bioinformatics capabilities to analyze these data and apply them successfully in plant improvement. Genomics, in a general sense, is advancing by improvements in technology at each of the levels from studies of DNA (genomics) and RNA (transcriptomics), which are often considered a core part of genomics, to proteins (proteomics), metabolites (metabolomics) and the phenotypes (phenomics) (Table 1).
