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The 51st Annual Maize Genetics Conference will be held March 12-15, 2009 in Pheasant Run, St. Charles, Illinois. Abstracts are due January 30. For more information, please consult their website.

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 more information, please contact Mary Palmer Sullivan.

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


Plant Ontology Consortium (POC) is excited to announce the release #1108 (November 2008) of the Plant Ontology Database.

ग्रामीन डाटाबेस आप हिन्दी भाषियों का स्वागत करता है । अगर आप पौधों से ताल्लुक रखते हैं और कृषी, अग्रोनोमी, जेनेटिक्स, जीनोमिक्स , बायोकेमिस्ट्री, मालिक्युलर बायोलोजी, बोटनी आदि में से किसी भी विधा में रिसर्च करते हैं या पढ़ते और पढ़ाते हैं तो यह डाटाबेस आपके लिए अच्छी जानकारी उपलब्ध करा सकता है । कृपया वेब साईट http://www.gramene.org इसे देखें । इस डाटाबेस पर आपको निम्नलिकित पौधों के जीनोम, जींस, QTL, जेनेटिक मैप, जेनेटिक मारकर, प्रोटीन मालेक्युल, आदी पर विस्तार पूर्वक रोचक वैज्ञानिक जानकारी उपलब्ध कराई गयी है।

3 week course at IRRI, Philippines, May 18 - June 5, 2009

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6th International Symposium of Rice Functional Genomics (ISRFG) to be held on November 10-12th 2008 in the Jeju International Convention Center in Jeju, South Korea.

Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam will host the 3rd International Rice Congress (IRC2010) in the year 2010. The meeting is expected to be the world's largest gathering of rice scientists, researchers, and technologies. This meeting coincides with the 50th anniversary of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI). For more details please visit the IRRI/CGIAR news release.