Proceedings of
3rd International Conference on Advances in Bio-Informatics, Bio-Technology and Environmental Engineering ABBE 2015
"EMERGING AGRIGENOMICS APPROACHES IN STRESS PLANT BIOLOGY"
Abstract: “Biotic stress owing to infection of the plants by phytopathogens causes immense losses in crop yield, up to 12% annually. Abiotic stress is another major cause of crop losses worldwide, reduces average yield by more than 50% for major crops. Globally, 22% of the agricultural land is saline and drought stress contribute to 26% in crop losses; in fact only 10% area is not affected by any stress factors. In recent times, high-throughput technologies (viz. next gene sequencing) have produced huge amount of genomic information and consequently the genome sequences of a large number of micro to higher organisms have been completed. The whole genome sequences of a large number of crop plants and their bacterial and fungal pathogens are now available. With the ever growing sequence data, the functional prediction/ annotation of proteins which is of paramount importance, has become a challenging task. Although the wet laboratory experiments identify the function of proteins correctly, these are”
Keywords: Emerging, Agrigenomics, Approaches, Stress Plant