ABSTRACT
The ever-growing demand for more quantity and higher quality of food may be met by the emerging methods of genetic improvement of crop plants. As plant biology research depends fundamentally on plant genome research, it is necessary to lay a firm foundation for an entirely new level of efficiency and success in the application of genetics and breeding to crop plants (Cook 1998). Genomics will accelerate the application of gene technology to agriculture (Briggs 1998). Wholegenome sequencing provides a bounty of information to understand the biology of our complex world. It can be applied to identify gene function and regulation, which will provide a direct access to all genes of an organism. It can also be used to study evolutionary relationships among organisms and will represent an essential step towards a systematic
understanding of genome organization as well as plant biology (Yu and Wing 2005; Stein 2007).
