The International Conference on Heterosis in Plants: Genetics and molecular causes and optimal exploitation in breeding, will be held September 7 to 9, 2009 at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart, Germany. For more information, please see their website.

The Gramene team is making an interim release of our comparative maps database (CMap) which restores previously available 12 “stacked” maps from the Oryza Mapping Alignment Project (OMAP). These maps order and orient the best selection of FPC contigs for each species as compared to Gramene’s annotated version of the TIGR rice assembly. [...]

On Friday, January 30, 2009, the Pacific Northwest Wheat Quality Council meeting will be held in Sacramento, California.  Sponsored by the National Barley Foods Council, the Forum will spotlight breeding and research developments for food barley and will address the unique opportunities and challenges facing the future of new barley foods production and consumption.  For [...]

Gramene offers a public, read-only MySQL server for many of our databases
including all of our Ensembl databases and our markers and sequence
database. You can connect to the host “gramenedb.gramene.org,” with
the password “gramene,” e.g.:

mysql -hgramenedb.gramene.org -pgramene