1. Bioinformatic Resources
Interworkings of Current Project
Functional Genomics
Functional genomics
Expression profiling
Signaling/pathways
Jiang, Buell, Baker
Structural Genomics
R gene identification & analysis/ Evolution
Baker, Brown, May, Bradeen, Jahn
Training/
Outreach
Resource generation
R genes
Transgenic lines
Expression profiles
Arrays
Bioinformatic Resources
Buell, Jiang, May

2. Utilizing a diverse scientific community to study intensive and important topics using comparative genomics with the Solanaceae as it provides a unique set of crop species that is important to:
-Investigate plant response to abiotic stress, biotic stress and development (done)
-Integrative team of geneticists, breeders, genomicists, bioinformaticists, biologists to be poised to tackle important issues in translational genomics as it pertains to the Solanaeae (done)
-Ready to move to more applications in the field, breeding, basic biology, evolution

3. Present
Second generation resources (R genes from other species, loci)
Expression profiles from diverse physiological states
Comparative genomics at structural and functional levels
Linking breeding with genomics
Baker, Jiang, Buell, May, Brown, Jahn, Bradeen
Past
Resource oriented
R genes
ESTs
First generation arrays
Baker, May, Jiang, Tanksley, Fry, Helgeson
Future
Allele/gene prospecting of germplasm
Translational genomics to generate R gene banks for major diseases in Solanaceae
Whole genome comparative genomics
Focus on important potato biology