Answer to Question #203788 in Genetics for Sam

Question

The weaknesses/strengths and comment on potential future uses, with respect to reliability, validity and other factors on DNA extraction, Gel electrophoresis and cell transformation.

Answer 1

An array of genomic technologies can be used to generate large-scale genetic-diversity data on any species that can be used to breed improved crop varieties through such techniques as MAS. For example, genome sequencing and resequencing (in which all or part of the genome is sequenced) and single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) assays (in which hundreds to millions of individual loci are assayed for allelic diversity) are genomic methods that are used routinely in many crops.