Nowadays, agricultural genomics, or agrigenomics (the application of
genomics in agriculture), continues to drive sustainable productivity and offer solutions
to the mounting challenges of feeding the global population. Omic sciences (genomics,
transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics) open today opportunities to create plants
with high yields, independently of biotic and abiotic stresses. Plant genomic research,
genome-wide computational tools and association analyses can assist in the
identification of Resistance gene analogs (RGAs) from strategic plant species, and the
detection of disease resistance QTLs. This chapter summarizes some of the large-scale
genomic tools and studies that have clarified the plant – pathogen interactions.
Keywords: Plant Genomic Research, Computational Analyses, Genome-Wide
Analyses, Big Biological Data, Agrigenomics, Biotic Stresses, R-gene Analogs
(RGAs), NBS-LRR-encoding Genes, TILLING, RNA-seq, GWAS.
