Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for determining the correlation between the metabolite profiles (MPs) and the expression or potential for expression of a trait of a group of plants, and further to a method for determining or predicting the expression of a trait of a plant by taking advantage of the determined MP of said plant and a determined correlation between the MPs and the expression or potential for the expression of said trait in a group of plants. Particularly, the present invention relates to a method for determining or predicting the biomass production/growth rate of a plant by taking advantage of the determined MP of said plant and a determined correlation between the MPs and the biomass production/growth rate or the potential for biomass production/growth rate of a group of plants.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the preselection of shotgun clones, e.g., cosmids, PACs, BACs, etc. of a genome of an organism, or of parts of the genome of an organism that significantly reduces the time and workload associated with the further processing of shotgun clones, for example, in sequencing projects such as the human genome project. The invention relies on a combination of steps including the transfer of shotgun clones to a carrier. e.g., nylon membrane, glass chip, etc. where the clones bind, preferably hybridize to a set of specifically selected probes, e.g., DNA oligonucleotides, PNA oligonucleotides or pools of DNA or/and PNA oligonucleotides, further antibodies, fragments or derivatives thereof which are labeled or unlabeled. Each probe of said set interacts to 1 to 99% (ideally 50%) of all shotgun clones (nucleic acid fragments) in all investigated shotgun libraries.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the preselection of shotgun clones, e.g., cosmids, PACs, BACs, etc. of a genome of an organism, or of parts of the genome of an organism that significantly reduces the time and workload associated with the further processing of shotgun clones, for example, in sequencing projects such as the human genome project. The invention relies on a combination of steps including the transfer of shotgun clones to a carrier, e.g., nylon membrane, glass chip, etc. where the clones bind, preferably hybridize to a set of specifically selected probes, e.g., DNA oligonucleotides, PNA oligonucleotides or pools of DNA or/and PNA oligonucleotides, further antibodies, fragments or derivatives thereof which are labeled or unlabeled.