Omics of model plants

Abstract

The multiple omics tools and strategies like high-throughput genome-scale genotyping platforms such as whole-genome re-sequencing, proteomics, and metabolomics provide greater opportunities to dissect molecular mechanisms and the discovery of key genes in developing ideal genotypes in the changing climate scenario. The last decade has seen rapid advances in functional genomic research globally. Most of the efforts involve construction of technological and resource platforms for high-throughput DNA sequencing, gene identifi cation, and physical and genetic mapping; functional analysis of genomes for agronomic traits and biological processes; and identifi cation and isolation of functional genes. The functional genomic research aims to understand how the genome functions at the whole-genome level, whereas proteomics looks for the systematic analysis of the protein population in a tissue, cell, or subcellular compartment. Metabolites are the end products of cellular process, and they show the response of biological systems to environmental changes. The current trend in metabolomic.