MOLECULAR ANALYSIS OF SMALL GRAIN CEREAL GENOMES - CURRENT STATUS ANDPROSPECTS

Recent developments in cereal genome analysis include generation of RF LP maps, flow sorting of chromosomes, identification of landmarks for genes and a more advanced model for cereal genome organization. These developments are reviewed together with new prospects for the isolatio n of defined genes from large cereal genomes and for the production of a composite map of the ancestral grass genome to aid in the genetic a nalysis of all the Gramineae. The advances that can now come from comp arative genome mapping are likely to promote further the new era of pl ant genetics.