Submitted by Sushma_Naithani on Mon, 10/02/2017 - 04:53
Plant Genome Evolution 2017, a Current Opinion in Plant Biology Conference, is currently being held at Meliá Sitges, Sitges (near Barcelona), Spain (1-3 October 2017).
Submitted by marcela.karey on Wed, 09/27/2017 - 10:52
Calling all early career plant scientists!
The New Phytologist Tansley Medal is awarded annually in recognition of an outstanding contribution to plant science by an individual in the early stages of their career (student and post-doctoral researchers with up to five years’ experience since gaining / defending their PhD are eligible).
Submitted by marcela.karey on Wed, 09/20/2017 - 15:33
The Gramene Team is pleased to announce its release #55 with 1,836,677 genes and 45 reference plant genomes. Of these genes, 1,588,290 are protein coding, and 1,492,253 genes organized in 63,367 gene family trees.
Submitted by Sushma_Naithani on Wed, 09/13/2017 - 16:04
Gramene encourages and supports researchers to learn how to annotate and format their data sets accurately for publication and deposition in the public repositories for its long-term utilization, re-use, re-analysis and interoperability.
Submitted by marcela.karey on Fri, 08/18/2017 - 11:44
Prior to the start of the CSHL Plant Genomes Meeting, a half-day workshop will be sponsored by the Gramene (NSF #1127112) and CyVerse (NSF # 1265383) projects and will cover public bioinformatics tools and resour
Submitted by marcela.karey on Mon, 07/17/2017 - 16:30
The Gramene Team is pleased to announce its release #54 with 1,751,769 genes and 44 reference plant genomes.
Genomes
Submitted by marcela.karey on Thu, 06/15/2017 - 11:11
Written by: Young Koung Lee
The 9th Asian Crop Science Association Conference (9th ACSAC) was held at Jeju International Convention Center, Korea on June 5-7, 2017. Dr. Young Koung Lee presented a poster about the Gramene comparative genomics and pathways database. The meeting brought together crop researchers from all over the world, especially Asia, Japan, Korea, and China.
Gramene at the 9th ACSAC mainly focused on the issues below:
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Dr. Young K. Lee describing Gramene, a comparative database for plants
Submitted by marcela.karey on Mon, 06/12/2017 - 15:26
Author: Peter Tarr, Senior Science Writer
‘Phenotypic plasticity’ traced to maize’s regulatory flexibility bodes well for expanding the staple’s growing range as the planet warms
Submitted by marcela.karey on Fri, 06/09/2017 - 16:11
The Plant Biology 2017 Conference will take place in Honolulu, HI from June 24-28 of 2017.
Submitted by marcela.karey on Tue, 06/06/2017 - 16:58
Fascination of Plants Day (FoPD) is celebrated around the world on May 18th.
To celebrate FoPD in New York, Dr. Marcela Karey Tello-Ruiz (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY) visited Bayville Primary School to present the class of Ms. Francine Alonge with fascinating plant facts that inspired these second graders to come up with their very own plant superheroes!
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Plant superheroes save the day!
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