Table 2.

Available online resources.

Database	Website URL	Function
Maize Genetics and Genomics Database (Lawrence et al., 2004)	http://www.maizegdb.org	SSRs; SNPs; genetic maps; gene predictions; genome browser; physical map
National Center for Biotechnology Information	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov	Alignment software; BLAST; BAC sequences
Phytozome	http://www.phytozome.org	Sorghum (Paterson et al., 2009), maize, rice, and Brachypodium genome browsers
Gramene (Ware et al., 2002)	http://www.gramene.org	Rice genomic sequence browser
Panzea (Zhao et al., 2006)	http://www.panzea.org	SNPs
PlantGDB (Dong et al., 2004)	http://www.plantgdb.org	Gene predictions; genome browser
Primer3 (Rozen and Skaletsky, 2000)	http://bioinfo.ut.ee/primer3-0.4.0/primer3/	Primer design for PCR amplification of genic regions
dCAPS markers (Neff et al., 2002)	http://helix.wustl.edu/dcaps/dcaps.html	Identify CAPS markers; design dCAPS primers