Includes bibliographical references and index.

An Improved Method for Plant BAC Library Construction / Meizhong Luo and Rod A. Wing -- Constructing Gene-Enriched Plant Genomic Libraries Using Methylation Filtration Technology / Pablo D. Rabinowicz -- RescueMu Protocols for Maize Functional Genomics / Manisk N. Raizada -- Precious Cells Contain Precious Information: Strategies and Pitfalls in Expression Analysis from a Few Cells / Isabelle M. Henry and Dina F. Mandoli -- Combined ESTs from Plant-Microbe Interactions: Using CC Counting to Determine the Species of Origin / Edgar Huitema [and others] -- Computer Software to Find Genes in Plant Genomic DNA / Ramana V. Davuluri and Michael Q. Zhang -- Genomic Colinearity as a Tool for Plant Gene Isolation / Wusirika Ramakrishna and Jeffrey L. Bennetzen -- Using Natural Allelic Diversity to Evaluate Gene Function / Sherry R. Whitt and Edward S. Buckler -- Quantitative Trait Locus Analysis as a Gene Discovery Tool / Michael D. McMullen -- Transposon Tagging Using Activator (Ac) in Maize / Thomas P. Brutnell and Liza J. Conrad -- T-DNA Mutagenesis in Arabidopsis / Jose M. Alonso and Anna N. Stepanova -- Physical and Chemical Mutagenesis / Andrea Kodym and Roesnak Afza -- High-Throughput TILLING for Functional Genomics / Bradley J. Till [and others] -- Gene and Enhancer Traps for Gene Discovery / Marcela Rojas-Pierce and Patricia S. Springer -- High-Throughput TAIL-PCR as a Tool to Identify DNA Flanking Insertions / Tatjana Singer and Ellen Burke -- Custom Knock-Outs with Hairpin RNA-Mediated Gene Silencing / Susan Varskia Wesley [and others] -- Virus-Induced Gene Silencing / S.P. Dinesh-Kumar [and others] -- Exploring the Potential of Plant RNase P as a Functional Genomics Tool / Dileep K. Pulukkunat [and others] -- Maintaining Collections of Mutants for Plant Functional Genomics / Randy Scholl, Martin M. Sachs, and Doreen Ware -- Vector Construction for Gene Overexpression as a Tool to Elucidate Gene Function / Alan Lloyd -- 21 T-DNA Activation Tagging / Johan Memelink -- Expression Profiling Using cDNA Microarrays / Suling Zhao and Wesley B. Bruce -- Open Architecture Expression Profiling of Plant Transcriptomes and Gene Discovery Using GeneCallingª Technology / Oswald R. Crasta and Otto Folkerts -- Proteomics as a Functional Genomics Tool / Ulrike Mathesius [and others] -- Metabolite Profiling as a Functional Genomics Tool / Anusha P. Dias [and others] -- Growth Stage-Based Phenotypic Profiling of Plants / Susanne Kjemtrup [and others].