Archive for October 2009

Gramene’s 30th release

Posted on October 7, 2009, 2:05 PM, by kclark, under Gramene news.

The Gramene team is happy to announce the 30th release of our website. This release includes the latest version 55 of the Ensembl genome browser displaying a total of thirteen distinct genomes; two new comparative maps; updates to proteins, genes, alleles, and pathways; new large-scale SNP-chip based genotype datasets for rice and Arabidopsis plus [...]

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Effect of TLD1 on architecture and drought tolerance of rice

Posted on October 5, 2009, 11:40 AM, by palitha, under Publication.

Zhang et al. (Plant Phys, Sept 23) report the influence of TLD1/GH3.13 (PlantGeneWiki: GR:0020049) gene on plant architecture and drought tolerance through the isolation of a gain of function rice mutant, tld1-D. TLD1 is a IAA-amido synthetase that conjugates free IAA to amino acids, in turn reducing available free IAA in the plant. Its expression [...]

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Gramene Database and Plant Ontology Workshop at the 9th IPMB Congress

Posted on October 1, 2009, 1:47 PM, by pankaj, under Meeting/symposium/workshop, Uncategorized.

We would like to invite the attendees of the 9th International Plant Molecular Biology (IPMB) Congress to be held from October 25-30, 2009 in St. Louis, MO, USA to the Gramene Database and Plant Ontology Workshop. The workshop is free and open to everyone.
Workshop Title: Comparative Plant Genomics with the Gramene database and Plant Ontology [...]

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