Comparative genomics of Arabidopsis and maize: prospects and limitations

Brendel V, Kurtz S, Walbot V. Comparative genomics of Arabidopsis and maize: prospects and limitations. Genome Biology. 2002;3(3): reviews1005.1.The completed Arabidopsis genome seems to be of limited value as a model for maize genomics. In addition to the expansion of repetitive sequences in maize and the lack of genomic micro-colinearity, maize-specific or highly-diverged proteins contribute to a predicted maize proteome of about 50,000 proteins, twice the size of that of Arabidopsis