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5 Genomics and the Major Transitions in Plant Evolution
5 Genomics and the Major Transitions in Plant Evolution
Pages 37-40
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Plant genomics is increasingly capable of providing DNA-based analytic tools for comparing genomes across great evolutionary distances and for providing insights about the similarities and differences among organisms, the basis of ecologic adaptations, and their origins and persistence. There is untapped value in natural variation as a source of functional information because natural variation has led to variation in function that cannot be uncovered in typical forward or reverse mutant screens.
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The specific approach taken to achieve the goals of evolutionary studies broadly is not immediately obvious and will require consensus building. Our key concern is that, for any given species or evolutionary question, there needs to be at least some minimum concentration of scientists ready to exploit genomics data.
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By expanding the essential toolkit available to evolutionary biologists interested in diverse taxa in the next 5 years, and by urging the relevant community to coalesce around a set of common goals, the stage can be set for the expansion of plant genomics into evolutionary questions. We hope that this modest investment will prepare the evolutionary genomics community for a much larger investment in genome sequencing in the next 5-10 years.
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