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- GrainGenes 2.0 is here!
- If you're reading this and the page is still dingy yellow instead of
glistening white, click here
for the new GrainGenes website. The old homepage at http://wheat.pw.usda.gov/ggpages
will continue to be available but
will no longer be updated. So please switch to the new version, and let us know if you have trouble
finding things you're accustomed to finding. GrainGenes 2.0 features the new,
relational version of the GrainGenes Database. The old version (now
called "GrainGenes Classic") will
continue to be available and will continue to be updated daily. A
description of the database migration from the ACEDB software to MySQL is
here.
- The Latest Barley Genetics Newsletter and Barley Newsletter are Now Online
- The Barley Genetics Newsletter, Volume 34 is now online. Visit the BGN homepage for links to all BGN volumes. The BGN volume fills as reports are submitted.
- The Barley Newsletter, Volume 47 is now online and is complete. Visit the Barley Newsletter homepage for links to all volumes.
- A Website for Biotechnology Resources for Arable Crop Transformation (BRACT) is now online.
- BRACT is a Defra-funded research program to proved an efficient transformation capability for the U.K. research community. The BRACT project is a collaboration between Rothamsted research and the John Innes Centre. Visit BRACT at www.bract.org
- Report of the wheat CAP planning conference
- A conference to plan a Coordinated Agricultural Project proposal on
wheat translational genomics was held August 16-17 in Denver CO. Click
here for the final report. See also additional information about the
project at the MASwheat site.
- Barley CAP Conference
- "Coordinated Agricultural Project Conference on Barley Translational Genomics"
November 13-14, 2004, Minneapolis MN.
The goal of the meeting will be to define research priorities for barley
translational genomics and outline a proposal that will be submitted for a
barley CAP grant.
Everyone who is interested in barley research is invited to attend.
Registration is required; however, there is no registration fee. Deadline
for registration is October 21.
Announcement and registration form in .doc format
National Research Initiative: Applied Plant Genomics Coordinated Agricultural Project
- EWAC 2005, First Circular
- The European Wheat Aneuploid Co-operative will meet in Prague, Czech
Republic, 27 June - 1 July 2005. Please indicate your interest in receiving
further information by submitting this form.
- Physical Mapping of the Barley Genome
- This database of Hordeum vulgare cv. Morex BAC contigs,
assembled via FPC, currently contains 22,000 clones assembled in 2300
contigs, corresponding to about 1/3 of the barley gene space. Data on
thousands of markers (cDNAs, gene fragments and overgo probes) mapped to the
BAC clones will be added soon.
- Cereal Genomics published
- Edited by P K Gupta (CCSU, Meerut, IN) and Rajeev K Varshney (IPK,
Gatersleben, DE), this book covers all aspects of structural and functional
genomics of cereals. Contents and
Contributors.
- Wheat Genetic Improvement Network,
WGIN
- Defra, the UK Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, is
supporting a major public-sector pre-breeding program to deliver genetic
material to UK wheat breeders.
- Report on IGROW discussions, May 2004
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Discussions at the ITMI meeting in Minneapolis.
From Rudi Appels and Bikram Gill.
- WMC 1 SSRs
- All of the
data from the first Wheat Microsatellite Consortium is now online. This
includes markers wmc1 through wmc588.
- Better Barley Faster: the Role of Marker Assisted Selection
- A special issue of the Australian Journal of Agricultural Research, containing results from the Australian National Barley Molecular Marker Program. Abstracts and some articles are available online.
- Rice chromosomes vs. cereal genes
- Physical (BAC/PAC) map of japonica chromosomes, aligned by BLAST with
mapped contigs and singletons from the NSF wheat EST project,
with contigs and singletons from the Wheat SNP project, and
with GenBank protein sequences of wheat, barley, rye, oat, and rice.
Contributed by Jing Yu, DNA
LandMarks.
- Comparative Map of Wheat and Rice Genomes
- Comparison based on thousands of wheat ESTs mapped in Chinese Spring deletion lines and BLASTed against the rice genome sequence. Supplementary detailed data from Sorrells and La Rota, Genome Research 13:1818-1827 (2003).
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