| | PAG-XII: (W235) GENOMIC ANALYSES AND COMPARISONS BETWEEN THE MONOCOT ORDERS ASPARAGALES AND POALES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | The order Poales of the class Commelinanae possesses the most economically important monocots; the Asparagales is the second most economically valuable monocot order and includes such important plants as agave, aloe, asparagus, garlic, iris, onion, orchid, and vanilla. |
 | | Genomic analyses of the Asparagales are hampered by relatively long generation times and some of the largest nuclear genomes known among all eukaryotes. |
 | | Expressed sequence and genomic comparisons revealed strong differences between the Asparagales and Poales for mean GC content and distribution across coding regions, indicating that genomic characteristics are not uniform across the monocots. |
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