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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 is suppressed in above ground regions of the plant but is rapidly induced during drought stress.

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 project

When: Monday October 26, 6-9pm (Workshop lists)

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.

Bioinformatics and software programmer job openings at the rank of Faculty Research Assistant are available in the Jaiswal lab at the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology to work on the Computational Biology and Bioinformatics projects.  This is a full-time, (1.0 FTE), 12-month, fixed-term position working in Dr. Pankaj Jaiswal's lab (http://www.science.oregonstate.edu/bpp/faculty/jaiswal/). The positions are renewable.

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Gramene's servers will be unavailable for a period of at least 2 hours between 1-5PM on Wednesday, September 9th. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.

Announcing an opportunity to participate in the 6th International Rice Genetics Symposium and the 7th International Rice Functional Genomics Symposium, November 16-19, 2009 (http://www.ricegenetics.com/).

The journal Bioinformatics has published a brief paper on CMap 1.01: A comparative mapping application for the Internet. CMap was originally written for the Gramene project in 2001 and is freely available at the GMOD site.

The Rice Research Station’s Rice Cam field will be harvested this afternoon (Monday, August 10) weather permitting. This is a foundation seed field of the newly released jasmine variety ‘Jazzman’.

If you would like to view the harvest operation, click on the link below.

http://www2.lsuagcenter.com/ricecam

A multi-institutional collaboration recently published the paper, "Genomewide SNP variation reveals relationships among landraces and modern varieties of rice" in PNAS. The study characterized 160,000 nonredundant SNPs, which were used to evaluate the genotypic and evolutionary relationships among 20 varieties and landraces of rice.