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HudsonAlpha involved in cacao genome project

A first draft of the cacao genome is complete, a consortium of academic, governmental, and industry scientists announced today. Indiana University Bloomington scientists performed much of the sequencing work, which is described and detailed at http://www.cacaogenomedb.org/, the official website of the Cacao Genome Database project. Despite being led and funded by a private company, Mars… [Read More]

Soybean project in GenomeWeb literature reference

A large team comprised of researchers from Purdue University, the US Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute, and the US Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service used whole-genome shotgun sequencing to sequence roughly 85 percent of the 1.1-gigabase soybean, Glycine max, genome. The paper describes how the team integrated the shotgun approach with physical and… [Read More]

Brachypodium genome project collaborator Oregon State’s release

“What this work provides is a highly informative roadmap to explore and improve plants of great agricultural value, like wheat,” said James Carrington, director of the Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, and a co-author of the study. “The quality of science that can be done with plants like Brachypodium is really exceptional.” Read more… [Read More]

Brachypodium project in Biofuels Digest

In Washington, researchers at the USDA and the Joint Genome Institute today announced that they have completed sequencing the genome of Brachypodium distachyon, similar to switchgrass – as a model organism that is similar to but easier to grow and study than important agricultural crops, used by plant scientists the way other researchers use lab… [Read More]

Brachypodium genome project on CORDIS

Some grass species play a pivotal role in meeting our food supply needs. We have also seen a surge in the domestication of new grass crops for feedstock production and sustainable energy. Experts say, however, that failure to understand how genes work and a lack of knowledge about their large and complex genomes lead to… [Read More]

Brachypodium project on Huffington Post

In a study published Feb. 11 in the journal Nature, researchers from the department’s Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, which is managed in part by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, sequenced a form of wild grass in order to derive a genome specifically adapted for biomass and biofuel production. Read more at The Huffington Post.  [Read More]

Brachy genome project on ScienceCentric

Brachypodium is actually a wild annual grass plant, native to the Mediterranean and Middle East, with little agricultural importance and is of no major economic value itself. But it allows researchers to obtain genetic information for grasses much more easily than some of its related, but larger and more complex counterparts with much larger genomes… [Read More]

Brachy genome project on Daily Cal

In a study published Feb. 11 in the journal Nature, researchers from the department’s Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, which is managed in part by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, sequenced a form of wild grass in order to derive a genome specifically adapted for biomass and biofuel production.  Researchers would then be able to… [Read More]

Brachy genome project on OfficialWire

A British- and U.S.-led international consortium says it has sequenced the first member of the wheat and barley group of grasses. The scientists, led by Britain’s John Innes Center, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Oregon State University, said the genome sequencing was of the wild grass… [Read More]

Brachy project on USDA-ARS news site

A major stumbling block in using switchgrass or any perennial grass as a biofuel crop is the difficulty in breaking down its cell walls, an essential step in producing ethanol from cellulosic biomass. Brachypodium may hold the key to finding ways to produce plant cell walls that are easy to break down, Vogel said. Vogel… [Read More]