- Disease and insect resistance
- Improvement of fruit and flower quality
- Modification of fatty acid and oil composition
- Increases in amino acids and nutrition
- Improvement of sugars and carbohydrates
- Increases in secondary plant products
- Production of mammalian peptides and vaccines
- Drought and salt tolerance
- 'adaptation-related' ...abiotic stress...biotechnology
Categorization of gene function
'gene ontology'
'clusters of orthologous groups'
'translational bioinformatics...pathways'

'functional annotation'