Abstract
An enormous amount of sequence information accumulated for the last 10 years has not only caused a paradigm shift in conventional physiology but also driven a evolution of plant physiology to an essential element of more universal biological science. We collected gene sequences of four cyanobacteria, two rhizobia and several flowering plants by genome and EST sequencing, and applied various functional genomics approaches by utilizing the sequence information obtained. As a consequence, we could identify a large number of genes maintained in the genomes, and provide many of the genes with the annotation of first phase or higher. Such records on the whole gene components in a wide variety of genomes are expected to play an indispensable role for the development of biological science in the future. Further collection, expansion, and fusion of individual gene information are in progress toward understanding of life on the basis of genetics.
