End or beginning of real science?
Jute is one of the most important fibre crops after cotton . Jute has a significant commercial potential for the generation of diversified value-added industrial products, in addition to its tremendous potential for industrial production of packaging material. Plant breeders have indicated that each of the two jute species contain very limited genetic variability with respect to adaptability to different agronomic environments, fibre quality, fibre yield, and susceptibility to diseases and pests. Jute genome sequencing and the subsequent gene discovery works from the refined jute genome sequence would greatly accelerate jute genetic improvement works.
Recent jute genome draft sequencing might pave the way of refining the sequence and eventually identifying the genes and their control elements for economic traits. The draft sequence needs to be refined first by resequencing and confirming that there are least possible mistakes in the sequence. After sequencing comes the daunting task of gene annotation or gene discovery. That means finding the real meaning of those long stretches of A, T, G, and C's. Then complex gene networks and gene interaction should be identified. The most important works would be to find the quantitative trait loci for agronomic traits. We need to train our young people in bioinformatics. They would carry out the follow up works of gene discovery and other complex genetic system from the genome sequence.
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