Plant reproductive genomics at the Plant and Animal Genome Conference

Exciting advances in our understanding of plantreproductive biology are being spurred both bynew research on established model systems andby the emergence of new models. Moreover, com-parative analyses are placing knowledge derivedfrom each of these systems into an evolution-ary framework and thus providing insights intothe processes responsible for the diversity offorms we see today. The number of species withlarge EST sets for oral transcriptomes is grow-ing rapidly (Figure 1;