Front Matter -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- Introduction -- CHAPTER TWO Sequencing: Generation of the Raw Material -- CHAPTER THREE Maximizing the Return from Reference Sequencing: Translational Agriculture -- CHAPTER FOUR Functional Exploitation of Genome Sequences -- CHAPTER FIVE Genomics and the Major Transitions in Plant Evolution -- CHAPTER SIX Development of a National Strategy for Plant Bioinformatics -- CHAPTER SEVEN Achieving Interdisciplinary Training -- References -- APPENDIX A Workshop on the National Plant Genome Initiative: 2003-2008 -- APPENDIX B Committee Biographies -- APPENDIX C Number of Publications in 2000-01 of 50 Most Cultivated Species -- Glossary.