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Briefings in Bioinformatics Advance Access published online on September 4, 2009
Briefings in Bioinformatics, doi:10.1093/bib/bbp036
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Bioinformatics in the orphan crops

Ian Armstead, Lin Huang, Adriana Ravagnani, Paul Robson and Helen Ougham

Corresponding author. Helen Ougham, Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Plas Gogerddan, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3EB, Wales, UK. Tel: +44-197-823094; Fax: +44-197-622350; E-mail: hjo{at}aber.ac.uk

Orphan crops are those which are grown as food, animal feed or other crops of some importance in agriculture, but which have not yet received the investment of research effort or funding required to develop significant public bioinformatics resources. Where an orphan crop is related to a well-characterised model plant species, comparative genomics and bioinformatics can often, though not always, be exploited to assist research and crop improvement. This review addresses some challenges and opportunities presented by bioinformatics in the orphan crops, using three examples: forage grasses from the genera Lolium and Festuca, forage legumes and the second generation energy crop Miscanthus.

Keywords: comparative genomics, crop improvement, genome sequencing, orphan crops, plant breeding

Submitted: May 5, 2009. Received (in revised form): July 21, 2009.


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