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11 September 2015

Linking Biomarker and Comparative Omics to Pathogens in Legumes

Southern Crop Protection and Food Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada, 1391 Sandford St., London, ON N5V 4T3, Canada

Abstract

It is envisioned that a more precise study of the association between the traits and biomarkers will dramatically decrease the time and costs required to bring new improved disease resistance lines to market. The field of omics has an enormous potential to assess diseases more precise, including the identification and understanding of pathogenic mechanisms in legume crops, and have been exemplified by a relatively large number of studies. Recently, molecular genetic studies have accumulated a huge amount of genotypic data, through a more affordable next generation sequencing (NGS) technology, causing the omics approaches to fall behind. In this paper I provide an overview of genomics and proteomics and their use in legume crops, including the use of comparative genomics to identify homologous markers within legume crops.

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