World Agriculture (WA) is a new peer-reviewed, review journal, centered on world agriculture. It is available both in print and electronically, free of charge at http://www.world-agriculture.net and the editorial board is seeking contributions from potential authors at editor@world-agriculture.net.
Apply for the travel awards to attend Gene Annotation Workshop to be held at the ASPB’s Plant Biology 2010 meeting.
If selected, the travel award will cover the cost of your registration for the entire Plant Biology 2010 meeting. We expect to award 10-20 participants.
Apply online at: http://plantontology.org/workshop/pb2010.html
Application Deadline: July 15, 2010
Workshop [...]
Gramene would like our users to be aware of the scholarship program with OpenHelix for under-represented groups in science. For more information, please see the press release.
The International Peach Genome Initiative (IPGA) has released version 1.0 of the peach genome sequence.
Peach v1.0 currently consists of 8 pseudomolecules (the first 8 scaffolds) representing the 8 chromosomes of peach and are numbered according to their corresponding linkage groups (a total of 202 scaffolds were generated). The genome sequencing consisted of approximately 7.7 [...]
The iPlant Collaborative (www.iplantcollaborative.org) announces free, 2-day workshops to introduce DNA Subway, iPlant’s first educational Discovery Environment. Instruction and workshop materials, lunches and coffee breaks are provided, as well as a stipend of $100 are provided. Further support for travel or other related expenses cannot be provided. DNA Subway was developed to make high-level [...]
Flapjack, a software tool from SCRI for “graphical genotyping and haplotype visualization”, is now available at their download page. Gramene’s genetic diversity modules offers SNP data in Flapjack format.
Two recent papers have cited Gramene. In 2009, Yamamoto et al. acknowledged Gramene’s QTL resources in a paper in DNA Research entitled “Towards the Understanding of Complex Traits in Rice: Substantially or Superficially?”, and in 2010, a paper published in BMC Plant Biology entitled “Transcriptional regulatory network triggered by oxidative signals configures the early [...]
Undergraduates interested in applying their quantitative science or biology background to problems in plant biology are invited to a 2010 summer research opportunity. The iPlant Collaborative is supporting an Interdisciplinary Computational Thinking and Plant Biology Research Program for Undergraduates (Interdisciplinary UBRP-CT). This is a 12 week paid summer research experience (roughly $300/week) with many [...]
In a recent report published in the Transgenic Res. 2009 Sep 22., authors Anand and Tyagi, identified a cDNA for the gene encoding the arabinogalactan protein (AGP) . The cDNA (586bp) isolated from the Oryza sativa indica cDNA library was shown to be expressing preferentially in the inflorescence. The gene is shown to have pollen-specific and [...]