What's new in GrainGenes in 2001?

Sequence

• New! Database of Triticeae repetitive sequences, in progress
• Wheat ESTs, from the U.S. Wheat Genome Project
  58612 ESTs of Triticum, Aegilops and Secale. Example: Sequence BE425306
  The data include:
  • Preliminary set of "Possibly Different Genes" -- 6878 contigs and 19922 singles
    
  • Nucleotide sequence alignment of the contigs
  • Original sequencer tracefiles
  • Links to TIGR's Triticum aestivum Gene Index (TaGI)
    58343 T. aestivum sequences, boiled down to 6814 Tentative Consensus (TC) groups plus 16783 singletons. Including top five GenBank hits.
    
  • Links to NCBI's wheat and barley UniGene resource, which includes annotation of putative function as well as expression analysis with the Library Digital Differential Display.
  • Links to more detailed information on BLAST hits and mapping in the in-house databases wEST and wEST-SQL
  • New! Homologies to rice BAC/PAC sequences in Gramene
• PSR clones, from Katrien Devos
  204 sequences from 127 clones
• WMC microsatellites - Primers and sequences from the Agrogene Wheat Microsatellite Consortium
  Sixty so far, from Joerg Schondelmaier, Jorge Dubcovsky, Tom Blake and Daryl Somers.
• New! SCM microsatellites, from Bernd Hackauf
  157 EST-derived SSRs tested in Secale

Mapping

• Barley Physical Map update
  Substantial changes since the July 1999 version. From Gottfried Kuenzel
• The Harrington x Morex Barley Mapping Population
  Linkage map, QTLs, and genotype and phenotype data, from Luis Marquez-Cedillo and Pat Hayes
• Map_Data "Wheat, Synthetic x Opata, update"
  Update of group 3 maps of Synthetic x Opata, from Mark Sorrells
• Map_Data "Triticeae consensus"
  Updated consensus map of group 3, from Mark Sorrells
• Map_Data "Wheat, Synthetic x Opata, gbx RFLP"
  132 new mapped RFLP probes, from Jean Marie Jacquemin
• Map_Data "Wheat, Synthetic x Opata, SSR-D"
  Ae. tauschii microsatellites, many specific for the D genome
• Map_Data "T. turgidum, Messapia x dicoccoides, AFLP"
  AFLP markers added to the Messapia / MG4343 durum map
• Map_Data "Barley, LxHs"
  SSR map of barley Lina x H. spontaneum Canada Park, from Luke Ramsay
• Map_Data "Barley, Lx41"
  SSR map of barley Lerche x H. spontaneum BGRC41936, from Klaus Pillen
• Map_Data "Barley, IxF" updated
  Ten SSRs derived from sequenced genes added to barley Igri x Franka, from Klaus Pillen
• Map_Data "Diploid Oat, AFLP"
  AFLPs and retrotransposons on Avena strigosa x wiestii, from Roger Wise
• Map_Data "Barley, OWB"
  The Oregon Wolfe Barley population, including photographs of the "NEP" phenotypes, from Pat Hayes
• Map_Data "Barley, KxM"
  RFLP map of Ko A x Mokusekko 3
• Map_Data "Oat, OxT"
  Anchor RFLPs on hexaploid oat, Ogle x TAM O-301, from Jim Holland
• Map_Data "Rye, UC90 x E-line"
  Update of the 1998 release, from Perry Gustafson
• Map_Data "Wheat, Forno x Oberkulmer"
  Swiss wheat x spelt, including many Xpsr and Xglk markers
• Map_Data "Wheat, Gale" updated
  Fifty Xpsp SSR loci added, from Pauline Stephenson
• Linkage_Data "3A, CNN x WI"
  Earliness per se and other traits on chromosome 3A of Cheyenne / Wichita
• New! Map_Data "Oat, KxO, AFLP" and "Oat, CxI"
  Combined AFLP and RFLP maps of Kanota x Ogle and Clintland 64 x IL86-5698, from Les Domier
• New! Map_Data "Barley, AxK"
  AFLP map of Azumamugi x Kanto Nakate Gold, from Yoshiro Mano

Germplasm

• Wheat Performance Evaluations
  • Western Regional Performance Nursery, 2000, from Jim Anderson
  • HRSW Regional Performance Nursery, from Jochum Wiersma
    • Uniform Regional Scab Nursery, 2000
    • Uniform Regional Hard Red Spring Wheat Nursery, 2000
  • State Performance Tests
    • New! Minnesota, 2000, from Jochum Wiersma
• Oat Performance Evaluations
  • Uniform Early and Midseason Oat Performance Nurseries, 2000, from Richard Halstead
• GrainGenes Database links to GRIN had been broken for some months, now fixed.
  E.g. Germplasm "GOLDCOIN"

Publications

• Barley Genetics Newsletter - Volumes 1 - 15 (1971 - 1985)
  The set is now complete to date!
• Catalogue of Gene Symbols for Wheat - 2001 Supplement,
  by R.A. McIntosh, K.M. Devos, J. Dubcovsky and W.J. Rogers
• Annual Wheat Newsletter Volume 47, from Jon Raupp
• Oat Newsletter Volume 47, from James Chong
• Barley Newsletter Volume 44, from Dolores Mornhinweg
• New! GrainGenes Database records added for 1700 older references on Triticeae genetics, 1971-1998, from Agricola and the Wheat Gene Catalogue. Addition of current literature continues at about 200 records per month.