TY - CHAP AU - Jorge Ricaño-Rodríguez AU - Jacel Adame-García AU - Silvia Portilla- Vázquez AU - José M. Ramos-Prado AU - Enrique Hipólito-Romero ED - Ibrokhim Y. Abdurakhmonov Y1 - 2016-07-14 PY - 2016 T1 - The Extraordinary Nature of RNA Interference in Understanding Gene Downregulation Mechanism in Plants N2 - Plant genomics aims to sequence, characterize, and study the genetic compositions, structures, organizations, functions, and interactions/networks of an entire plant genome. Its development and advances are tightly interconnected with proteomics, metabolomics, metagenomics, transgenomics, genomic selection, bioinformatics, epigenomics, phenomics, system biology, modern instrumentation, and robotics sciences. Plant genomics has significantly advanced over the past three decades in the land of inexpensive, high-throughput sequencing technologies and fully sequenced over 100 plant genomes. These advances have broad implications in every aspect of plant biology and breeding, powered with novel genomic selection and manipulation tools while generating many grand challenges and tasks ahead. This Plant genomics provides some updated discussions on current advances, challenges, and future perspectives of plant genome studies and applications. BT - Plant Genomics SP - Ch. 7 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/61689 DO - 10.5772/61689 SN - 978-953-51-2456-6 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-18 ER -