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MEETING REPORTS

National Science Foundation-Sponsored Workshop Report. Draft Plan for Soybean Genomics¹

National Center for Soybean Biotechnology, Department of Plant Microbiology and Pathology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65203 (G.S.); Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801 (L.V.); Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602 (W.A.P.); and Corn Insect and Crop Genetics Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011 (R.C.S.)

Recent efforts to coordinate and define a research strategy for soybean (Glycine max) genomics began with the establishment of a Soybean Genetics Executive Committee, which will serve as a communication focal point between the soybean research community and granting agencies. Secondly, a workshop was held to define a strategy to incorporate existing tools into a framework for advancing soybean genomics research. This workshop identified and ranked research priorities essential to making more informed decisions as to how to proceed with large scale sequencing and other genomics efforts. Most critical among these was the need to finalize a physical map and to obtain a better understanding of genome microstructure. Addressing these research needs will require pilot work on new technologies to demonstrate an ability to discriminate between recently duplicated regions in the soybean genome and pilot projects to analyze an adequate amount of random genome sequence to identify and catalog common repeats. The development of additional markers, reverse genetics tools, and bioinformatics is also necessary. Successful implementation of these goals will require close coordination among various working groups.

www.plantphysiol.org/cgi/doi/10.1104/pp.103.037903.

^* Corresponding author; e-mail staceyg{at}missouri.edu.

Received December 17, 2003; returned for revision February 20, 2004; accepted February 20, 2004.

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