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Nearly half of the world's population acquires their staple calories from rice. While the Green revolution has witnessed substantial increases in the production, availability and global per capita consumption of rice, FAO estimates 870 million of the world population to be still hungry. To increase production and especially to alleviate effect of climate change on rice production it is imperative that rice breeding moves beyond the Green Revolution and incorporate modern genomics based methods.

Plant biologists looking for online, freely-available pathway resources that allow them to add, edit and download known and novel published pathways in plants have a new option: the WikiPathways Plants Portal (a collaboration between WikiPathways, the Jaiswal Lab at Oregon State University and the Gramene database).

The Gramene Team is pleased to announce its release #37.  In collaboration with Ensembl Plants we are providing in this release:

The DH Apple, Comice Pear, Sweet Cherry and Almond Genome project consortia have released the draft genome assemblies of the following four Rosaceae genomes this week:

Putative gene split models are available now for 23 plant reference genomes based on the latest Gramene release 36b (Gramene36bEnsembl70) hosted at Gramene. The split gene models are commonly related to an annotation artifact where a single gene is annotated as two or more genes due to incomplete evidence, but could also result from legitimate evolutionary processes. The Compara Gene Tree method predicts a special class of within-species paralogs called "contiguous_gene_split".

Scientists from Oregon State University and Portland State University develop the transcriptome and other genetic resources of an invasive plant, Brachypodium sylvaticum, for extensive research on plant adaptation.

In order to build and maintain cells, DNA is copied into ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules, also called transcripts. Transcripts are often like a recipe for making proteins, and a collection of all the transcripts in a cell is called a transcriptome.

The Gramene Team is pleased to announce interim release 36b. In collaboration with the Oryza Genome Evolution (OGE) project, the Human Reactome Project, and Ensembl Plants, we are providing in this release:

* A new platform for comparative analysis of plant metabolic, regulatory and signaling networks known as the Plant Reactome (beta version) and currently prototyped with rice pathways.

CALL FOR PAPERS
1st International Workshop on

Semantics for Biodiversity (S4BIODIV)

http://semantic-biodiversity.mpl.ird.fr/
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Held in parallel with

the 10th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2013)

http://2013.eswc-conferences.org/

Montpellier, France, May 26/27, 2013

With 870 million people still hungry (FAOSTAT, 2011), the publication of the most comprehensive analysis to date of two of the most elusive cereal genomes – wheat and barley – opens a realm of possibilities for optimizing the supply of these vital crops.

Gramene and MaizeGDB project teams publish work on MaizeCyc, a network of maize metabolic genes and pathways.