As part of our goal to increase the curation efficiency of reflecting new genes, qtl, etc. for the small grains, GrainGenes is beginning to explore using AI to assist in the curation. To begin, papers are being curated by the human curator (Vic Blake) at GG to provide a training set.
Below are the first of the training papers added to GrainGenes that will be used.

We added Synthetic Hexaploid Wheat Cultivar Chuanmai 104 to our genome browser collection and BLAST database.

Publication: Scientific Data, Liu et al, 2024 - Chromosome-level assembly of the synthetic hexaploid wheat-derived cultivar Chuanmai 104

Genome Browser: Chuanmai 104

A set of genome resources have been deposited on GrainGenes to complement recent work published for the Aegilops tauschii D genome led by the KAUST research group. Please visit the GrainGenes Tools / PanGenomes to visit the Tauschii Wheat Resource link and see the link to the publication : Cavalet-Giorsa et al. 2024. Origin and evolution of the bread wheat D genome.

The Watkins Landrace Collection contains wheat accessions collected world-wide. A publication in preprint in Nature 'Harnessing landrace diversity empowers wheat breeding' (Cheng S, et al.) reports 1428 GWAS QTL from the natural population and 3280 QTL from a population of recombinant inbred lines (RILs) from a nested-association mapping panel (NAM) with the common parent Paragon.

The GSP: Genome Specific Primers tool is deployed in GrainGenes through graingenes.org site at https://graingenes.org/GSP/. GSP is "a web-based platform to design genome-specific primers that distinguish subgenome sequences in a polyploid genome." The site was not accessible for a while to ensure IT security.

We've added a feature to our BLAST tool to link into NCBI's web-based BLAST tool to make available features such as Distance Tree views.

We added Triticum timopheevii to our genome browser collection, including BLAST databases.

The journal article is currently in press: Grewal et al., Nature Scientific Data, 2024 (in press). We will create a link from this page once the article is published.

Genome Browser: Triticum timopheevii

The Triticum turgidum Durum Wheat Svevo Rel. 2.0 pseudomolecules (2024) is made available under the prepublication data sharing principle of the Toronto agreement (Toronto International Data Release Workshop Authors. Prepublication data sharing. Nature 461, 168–170 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1038/461168a).