Transcriptional analysis of highly syntenic regions between Medicago truncatula and Glycine max using tiling microarrays

摘要

BackgroundLegumes are the third largest family of flowering plants and are unique among crop species in their ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen. As a result of recent genome sequencing efforts, legumes are now one of a few plant families with extensive genomic and transcriptomic data available in multiple species. The unprecedented complexity and impending completeness of these data create opportunities for new approaches to discovery.