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
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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 [...]

Gramene will be present at the Plant and Animal Genome (PAG) conference in San Diego, California, from January 9-14. You can find us at one of our posters (P817, P822, P835, P843, P859), at our computer demonstration, and at a outreach consortium booth we will share with several other plant databases.

The genome sequencing of Papaya variety called SunUp was reported recently by Ming et al. Nature. 2008 Apr 24;452(7190):991-6 (PMID: 18432245). SunUp was also the first commercial virus-resistant transgenic fruit tree.

The genome (DNA content) of one of the most commonly found ingredient in your salad, the cucumber (Cucumis sativus var. sativus L.), has been sequenced. A report was published in Nature Genetics on November 1, 2009, (PubMed ID 19881527) by the authors Huang, et al., on sequencing the "Chinese long" inbred line 9930 of [...]