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Heterosis in Plants Conference

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.

Updated OMAP in CMap

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.

National Barley Foods Forum

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.

Public Read-only MySQL Database Server

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 Database #1108 Release

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

ग्रामीन डाटाबेस

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।

Rice: Research to Production Course (3 weeks at IRRI)

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

Get your FEET WET in the rice paddies of Asia.

Find out how rice is connected to the INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY. Join the NEXT Generation of plant scientists.

Building the future of rice research and addressing GLOBAL PROBLEMS.

This course is developed in collaboration with IRRI, and Cornell University with funding from the National Science Foundation.

International Symposium of Rice Functional Genomics (ISRFG)

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.

The 3rd International Rice Congress (IRC2010)

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.

Diversity association by trait

Gramene has made available the results of the General Linear Model (GLM) and Mixed Linear Model (MLM) association analysis performed by TASSEL. For each of the 75 traits in the Gramene diversity maize database, there is one text file containing the analysis results of allele assays vs. the given trait.  All the allele assay properties (e.g., locus) are included and and the analysis results (e.g., p value).

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