This is Martin Tiznado, from the Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo (CIAD), Hermosillo, Mexico. Regarding "What are the impacts (positive and/or negative) of genomics and other 'omics' likely to be in the near future (e.g. the next five years) for the crop, forestry, livestock, fishery and agro-industry sectors in developing countries?": We have been trying to work on several phenomena of tropical fruits. Currently, I am running a project to study the genes involved in the transport of lipids to the cuticle in Mango. Right now, we are facing the problem that we do not have the sequences of these genes from Mango and therefore we are walking to Mango from the tomato and Arabidopsis genomes, available in functional pages. However, it seems that the genes most likely are very different and the oligonucleotides designed based on tomato and Arabidopsis orthologs are not working properly. Likewise, I am working on a project focusing on Avocado with scientists from Colombia and there is not too much information about the genome of this tropical fruit either. From here, I feel that in a future, it is important to start a project with the goal to sequence the genome of tropical fruits, important for our country and many Latin American countries. In this way, I hope we will be able to boost the use of genomics tools in tropical fruits. With the moderate increase of the budget for science and technology in Mexico, I hope I will be able to start this project soon. Martín Ernesto Tiznado Hernández Fisiología y Biología Molecular de Plantas Coordinación de Tecnología de Alimentos de Origen Vegetal Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo, A.C. Hermosillo, Sonora. México. Telefono (Phone): +52-662-2892400 ext 346 FAX: +52-662-2800422 http://www.ciad.mx/ e-mail: tiznado (at) ciad.mx [To contribute to this conference, send your message to [log in to unmask] For further information on this FAO Biotechnology Forum, see http://www.fao.org/biotech/biotech-forum/] ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the Biotech-Room3-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.fao.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=Biotech-Room3-L&A=1