Toward a plant genomics initiative: Thoughts on the value of cross-species and cross-genera comparisons in the grasses

Comparative genomics offers unparalleled opportunities to integrate historically distinct disciplines, to link disparate biological kingdoms, and to bridge basic and applied science. Cross-species, cross-genera, and cross-kingdom comparisons are proving key to understanding how genes are structured, how gene structure relates to gene function, and how changes in DNA have given rise to the biological diversity on the planet. The application of genomics to the study of crop species offers special opportunities for innovative approaches for combining sequence information with the vast reservoirs of historical information associated with crops and their evolution. The grasses provide a particularly well developed system for the development of tools to facilitate comparative genetic interpretation among members of a diverse and evolutionarily successful family. Rice provides advantages for genomic sequencing because of its small genome and its diploid nature, whereas each of the other grasses provides complementary genetic information that will help extract meaning from the sequence data. Because of the importance of the cereals to the human food chain, developments in this area can lead directly to opportunities for improving the health and productivity of our food systems and for promoting the sustainable use of natural resources.

The book-lover's enchiridion; thoughts on the solace and companionship of books,

Mode of access: Internet.

Immigration from Central America : some thoughts on its causes and cures /

"July 1989."

Wood and garden : notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur /

Includes index.

Thoughts on a capital levy,

"This treatise formed the basis of the articles published in 'The Daily News' in November and December, 1919."

More dangerous thoughts,

Photocopy.

Thoughts in verse for my friends.

Mode of access: Internet.

Thoughts upon the lawfulness and expediency of church establishments : and suggestions for the appropriation of the Clergy Reserves in Upper Canada as far as respects and Church of England in a letter to C.A. Hagerman, Esq., M.P., solicitor general of Upper Canada /

Includes bibliographical references.

Master thoughts of master minds in poem, prose and pencil ... to which is added an appendix of biographical and critical notes.

Mode of access: Internet.

Chalkstream and moorland, thoughts on trout-fishing.

Mode of access: Internet.

Afro-American encyclopaedia : or, the thoughts, doings, and sayings of the race, embracing addresses, lectures, biographical sketches, sermons, poems, names of universities, colleges, seminaries, newspapers, books, and a history of the denominations, giving the numerical strength of each. In fact, it teaches every subject of interest to the colored people, as discussed by more than one hundred of their wisest and best men and women /

Mode of access: Internet.

Thoughts about art,

"In this edition the earlier Essays have been considerably abridged ... and more recent ones have been added."

Life thoughts, gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher /

Preface signed: Edna Dean Proctor.