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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Plant Genomics Volume 2008, Article ID 458732, 11 pages doi:10.1155/2008/458732 Review Article Sugarcane Functional Genomics: Gene Discovery for Agronomic Trait Development M. Menossi,1 M. C. Silva-Filho,2 M. Vincentz,1 M.-A. Van-Sluys,3 and G. M. Souza4 1 Departmento de Genetica e Evoluc¸ao IB-Unicamp, Centro de Biologia Molecular e Engenharia Genetica, ˜ ´ Universidade Estadual de Campinas, C.P. 6010, CEP 13083-970 Campinas, SP, Brazil 2 Departamento de Genetica, Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Av. Padua Dias, 11, ´ ˜ ´ C.P. 83, 13400-970 Piracicaba, SP, Brazil 3 Departamento de Botanica, Instituto de Biociencias, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Rua do Matao 277, 05508-090 Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil ˆ ˆ ˜ ˜ ˜ 4 Departamento de Bioquımica, Instituto de Quımica, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes 748, ´ ´ ˜ 05508-900 Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil ˜ Correspondence should be addressed to G. M. Souza, glmsouza@iq.usp.br Received 29 March 2007; Accepted 21 November 2007 Recommended by Yunbi Xu Sugarcane is a highly productive crop used for centuries as the main source of sugar and recently to produce ethanol, a renewable bio-fuel energy source. There is increased interest in this crop due to the impending need to decrease fossil fuel usage. Sugar-