Plants are fascinating and complex organisms. A comprehensive understanding of the
organization, function and evolution of plant genes is essential to disentangle important …

Our understanding of gene expression has changed dramatically over the past decade,
largely catalysed by technological developments. High-throughput experiments …

Abstract The Rice Annotation Project Database (RAP-DB, http://rapdb. dna. affrc. go. jp/) has
been providing a comprehensive set of gene annotations for the genome sequence of rice …

Medicinal plants are a rich source of highly diverse specialized metabolites with important
pharmacological properties. Until recently, plant biologists were limited in their ability to …

A wide range of resources on gene expression profiling enhance various strategies in plant
molecular biology particularly in characterization of gene function. We have updated our …

Rice is one of the most important stable food as well as a monocotyledonous model
organism for the plant research community. Here, we present RED (Rice Expression …

Omics and bioinformatics are essential to understanding the molecular systems that underlie
various plant functions. Recent game-changing sequencing technologies have revitalized …

Abstract The Plant Ontology (PO; http://www. plantontology. org/) is a publicly available,
collaborative effort to develop and maintain a controlled, structured vocabulary ('ontology') of …

Among three genes for cytosolic glutamine synthetase (OsGS1; 1, OsGS1; 2 and OsGS1; 3)
in rice (Oryza sativa L.) plants, the OsGS1; 2 gene is known to be mainly expressed in …

Background Microarray technologies facilitate high-throughput gene expression analysis.
However, the diversity of platforms for rice gene expression analysis hinders efficient …