PLANT REPLICATION

Broader impact - This project brings together investigators with a unique combination of in terests and expertise to explore the functional genomics of plant chromosomes. Our results will define chromosomal domains for DNA replication, chromatin structure and transcription, and serve as basis for future studies on more complex plant and animal genomes. It will also provide a foundation for de veloping new transformation and gene targeting methods, plant artificial chromosome vec tors, and related technologies that will help support a new generation of genetic engineering technologies. The project will generate new genomic information and tools that will be accessible to other members of the plant science community via the web. The genomic arrays for rice and Arabidopsis designed as part of this project will be available to the community. The project will provide training at the undergraduate, graduate and postdoc toral levels in state-of-the-art functional genomic and bioinformatics..

Also known as: Plant Replication Group