Figure 1

The Arabidopsis Genome Initiative (AGI), an international project for sequencing the genome of the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana. For each chromosome, black represents centromeres; grey telomeres; green rDNA repeats; and red contiguous DNA sequence. Sequencing groups are: TIGR, The Institute for Genomic Research (PIs: Craig Venter and Claire Fraser) [24]; Kazusa DNA research Institute (PI: Satoshi Tabata); SPPC, The SPP Consortium, Stanford, University of Pennsylvania, PGEC-USDA and University of California Berkeley (PIs: Ronald Davis, Joseph Ecker, and Athanasios Theologis) [25]; EUC-1 and EUC-2, European Union Consortia for Chromosomes 3, 4 and 5 (PIs: Michael Bevan and Francis Quetier); and the CSH/WU/ABI consortium of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Washington University and Applied Biosystems, Inc. (PIs: Richard McCombie, Richard Wilson and Ellson Chen). PI, principle investigator.