• However, a major drawback of conventionally induced mutagenesis is that genetic alterations occur simultaneously across the whole genome and at very high numbers per individual plant. (ipk-gatersleben.de)
  • Given the ecotoxic relevance and high potential for biomass production, whole-genome information of this cosmopolitan duckweed is needed. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Structureā€based detection methods show that the genome evolved via two rounds of whole genome duplications (WGDs), apparently common in mosses but not in liverworts and hornworts. (sequentiabiotech.com)
  • Whole-genome shotgun sequencing was carried out for 446 diverse PGR samples and 322 modern cultivars and lines. (bvsalud.org)
  • Here we demonstrate how a combination of low-resolution genetic mapping, whole-genome resequencing and comparative functional analyses provides a promising path toward candidate identification of genes involved in plastid biology and/or photosynthesis, even if genes are located in recombination poor regions of the genome. (inrae.fr)
  • Manoj Prasad (born 16 December 1970) is an Indian plant geneticist, molecular biologist and working as a Senior Scientist and JC Bose National Fellow at the National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR). (wikipedia.org)
  • Returning to India, he joined the National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), New Delhi in 2004 as a staff scientist Grade III and continues to serve the institute as a Staff Scientist Grade VI. (wikipedia.org)
  • Known for his research on the stress biology of plants and virology, he is an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, the National Academy of Sciences, India, the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the Indian Virological Society and was a recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship. (wikipedia.org)
  • Prasad is a former member of the editorial boards of journals such as Scientific Reports, The Plant Cell and Molecular Biology Reports and sits on the editorial boards of BMC Plant Biology, PLoS ONE, Plant Molecular Biology Reporter, Plant Cell Reports, Tissue and Organ Culture, Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, Plant Breeding, and Journal of Genetics. (wikipedia.org)
  • Plant Genetics and Molecular Biology. (wikipedia.org)
  • Recent work on duckweed species was highlighted in a special issue in Plant Biology to commemorate Dr. Elias Landolt and his contribution to modern duckweed research [ 12 - 14 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • On 11th to 13th September 2023, the working group convened a meeting themed "Plant Chromosome Biology" in Brno (CZ). (gpz-online.de)
  • U of S adjunct professor of biology Jon Page explains that the pathway is an unusual one, involving a specialized version of one enzyme, called hexanoyl-CoA synthetase, and another enzyme, called olivetolic acid cyclase (OAC), that has never before been seen in plants. (medicalmarijuana411.com)
  • 8th Edition of Global Conference on Plant Science and Molecular Biology ", Valencia, Spain and Virtually. (prri.net)
  • 3 - 6 July 2023: FESPB Workshop Plant Biology Europe , Marseille, France. (prri.net)
  • Plants 9 (2023) 616-630. (ipk-gatersleben.de)
  • 23 - 24 February 2023: University of Milan webinar " Plant Biotechnology for Agriculture of the XXI Century ", virtual. (prri.net)
  • 25 January 2023: COST Action PlantEd online l ecture series on gene editing , Dr. Fred Van Ex (Inari Agriculture, Belgium) and Prof. Jens Boch (Institute of Plant Genetics, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany). (prri.net)
  • In fundamental and breeding-oriented research, this technology opens up novel possibilities for the elucidation of gene functions and the improvement of crop plant traits. (ipk-gatersleben.de)
  • Using recent advances in sequencing, the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium now presents in the first transcription atlas of all wheat an annotated reference genome with a detailed analysis of gene content among sub-genomes and the structural organisation for all the chromosomes. (rural21.com)
  • For the first time, we are in a position to assign the proportions in the expression of characteristics to individual sub-genomes and to analyse the gene expression with the help of regulatory networks," says Andrea BrƤutigam, who participated in the project at the Leibniz Institute for Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research. (rural21.com)
  • Unlike in flowering plant genomes, geneā€ and TEā€rich regions show an overall even distribution along the chromosomes. (sequentiabiotech.com)
  • The P . patens genome lacks the TEā€rich pericentromeric and geneā€rich distal regions typical for most flowering plant genomes. (sequentiabiotech.com)
  • She discussed how temporal changes in transcription factor (TF) function can reveal the context for how genomes drive gene regulatory changes. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Implementation of next-generation sequencing in forward genetic screens greatly accelerated gene discovery in species with larger genomes, including many crop plants. (inrae.fr)
  • This de novo assembly of a red clover transcriptome from leaf material of droughted and non-droughted plants provides a rich source for gene identification, single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) and short sequence repeats (SSR). (biomedcentral.com)
  • Microcollinearity studies revealed, however, that the triplicated genome segments that make up the diploid Brassica genomes have been subjected to many structural alterations, such as gene duplications, translocations, inversions, and especially frequently gene deletions. (biomedcentral.com)
  • DcAOX genes' were further explored in a plant pot experiment in response to chilling, which confirmed the early AOX transcript increase prior to the induction of a specific anti-freezing gene. (frontiersin.org)
  • He is head of the collection of EMBL-EBI resources focused on Genes, Genomes and Variation and in this role provides strategic leadership of the six faculty groups that together provide all of EBI's genome annotation resources. (agbt.org)
  • Paul's research is focused on comparative regulatory genomics, the evolution of transcriptional regulation and annotation of the non-coding genome. (agbt.org)
  • The genome sequence and annotation of L. minor protein-coding genes provide new insights in biological understanding and biomass production applications of Lemna species. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The Functional Annotation of Animal Genomes (FAANG) Consortium is dedicated to improving genome annotation for domesticated animal species worldwide. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The sequence is the first nearly complete reference genome of wheat - a key tool for understanding, researching or improving the grain. (rural21.com)
  • Since bread wheat's genome is a large hybrid mix of three separate subgenomes, it has been difficult to produce a high-quality reference sequence. (rural21.com)
  • According to a press release of the German Helmholtz Centre in Munich/Germany, this sequence is the "anchor genome" for capturing the complete genetic diversity of bread wheat. (rural21.com)
  • They combined these with the fully annotated genome sequence to create a transcription atlas. (rural21.com)
  • His innovative biotechnologies and computational tools to study the sequence and function of genomes are advancing the understanding of the structure, evolution, and function of genomes for medicine - particularly autism spectrum disorders, cancer, and other human diseases - and agriculture. (agbt.org)
  • These archaeological remains provided a unique opportunity for us to finally sequence a Chalcolithic plant genome. (mpg.de)
  • With its research expertise, Varshney's team has generated genome sequence data and phenotypic data (that is, observable characteristics) of 3,000 chickpea lines from this collection. (iitm.ac.in)
  • Global research team decodes genome sequence of 90 chickpea lines Decoded genome of chickpea, a leading grain legume for many poor smallholder farmers, promises improved livelihoods in marginal environments In a scientific breakthrough. (icrisat.org)
  • A high-quality reference sequence for the Brassica napus genome is not yet available, thus studies of specific regions of the Brassica napus genome at sequence level have relied on the analysis of bacterial artificial chromosomes (BACs) or BAC contigs. (biomedcentral.com)
  • He is currently head of the Ensembl project and has held leadership roles in data management activities for the 1000 Genomes Project, the International Human Epigenome Consortium (IHEC) and the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC). (agbt.org)
  • He is a co-founder of the Telomere-to-Telomere Consortium and the Vertebrate Genomes Project, which seek to enable the complete and gapless assembly of human and all other vertebrate genomes. (agbt.org)
  • He highlighted various approaches for tapping the genetic potential in crops such as using environmental genome-wide association studies (GWAS) to identify useful alleles from diverse landraces, sequencing many closely related species to predict the most deleterious alleles, and using machine learning to model TF binding preferences and to predict allele-specific expression within and across species. (biomedcentral.com)
  • We applied a genome-wide association study (GWAS) on SOC in a collection of 290 core germplasm accessions. (biomedcentral.com)
  • With the complete wheat genome now available, and follow-up work, it will be possible to identify genes in wheat more precisely and faster. (rural21.com)
  • Several hundred genes are present in colinear regions conserved since the last common ancestor of plants. (sequentiabiotech.com)
  • Before onset of drought the sensitive plants overexpressed a number of genes annotated as senescence-related. (biomedcentral.com)
  • These studies showed that the A and C genomes in Brassica napus are very similar to those of the progenitors Brassica oleracea and Brassica rapa , however small differences with respect to the content of genes and mobile elements were observed. (biomedcentral.com)
  • One popular database is the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) which uses its own graphical representation and manual layout for pathways. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Understanding the precise functions of the NAC genes can be of utmost importance for the improvement of cereal crop plants through plant breeding. (biomedcentral.com)
  • For the cereal crop plant barley ( Hordeum vulgare L.) only a few NAC genes have so far been investigated. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Comparisons of expression profiles of selected barley NAC genes with the published functions of closely related NAC genes from other plant species, including both monocots and dicots, suggest conserved functions in the areas of secondary cell wall biosynthesis, leaf senescence, root development, seed development, and hormone regulated stress responses. (biomedcentral.com)
  • A report on the International Plant and Animal Genomes (PAG) conference held in San Diego, USA, 13-17 January 2018. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The draft genome of the moss model, Physcomitrella patens , comprised approximately 2000 unordered scaffolds. (sequentiabiotech.com)
  • In this research, the team succeeded in sequencing the complete genome of the 6,000-year-old barley grains. (mpg.de)
  • Melissa Wilson Sayres (Arizona State University, Tempe, USA) talked about how aligning all sequences to a single reference genome can produce erroneous results. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Duckweed species comprise a group of aquatic monocotyledons macrophytes consisting of floating plant bodies or "fronds. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Besides, their variety in growth habitats and their sensitivity to toxicants allowed the use of Lemna species in ecotoxicological research as representative of higher aquatic plants and standardized guidelines on how to perform a growth inhibition test were developed [ 19 - 26 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The extant diploid Brassica species, such as Brassica rapa , Brassica oleracea and Brassica nigra are therefore characterised by a complex genome structure. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The high-quality genome of this species that diverged early in Saccharomycotina will allow further fundamental studies on comparative genomics, evolution and phylogenetics. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Thus, sequencing of the Blastobotrys (Arxula) adeninivorans genome was of interest in order to generate an additional landmark in the basal portion of the hemiascomycete tree and possibly resolve phylogenetic relationships among basal species. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The meiotic topoisomerase VI B subunit (MTOPVIB) is essential for meiotic DNA double-strand break formation in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.). Plant Reprod. (ipk-gatersleben.de)
  • An international team of researchers has succeeded for the first time in sequencing the genome of Chalcolithic barley grains. (mpg.de)
  • The genome of Chalcolithic barley grains is the oldest plant genome to be reconstructed to date. (mpg.de)
  • Currently, high-throughput plant genomics and phenomics technologies are producing research data in abundance, the storage of which is not covered by established core databases. (bvsalud.org)
  • The Plant and Animal Genomes (PAG) meeting, now in its 26th year, is the largest ag-genomics meeting in the world. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Plenary lectures by influential researchers in different areas of plant and animal genetics and genomics provided new perspectives to conference attendees. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Genomics of plant genetic resources for global food security The world's population is projected to reach 10 billion by the year 2050, which will require a 70-100% increase in food production amid the effects of climate change that. (icrisat.org)
  • Dr Rajeev Varshney, Director, Centre of Excellence in Genomics (CEG), visited the Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) in Gatersleben, Germany on 11-13 March to explore opportunities for future research collaboration. (icrisat.org)
  • INCREASE will combine cutting-edge approaches in plant genetics and genomics, high throughput phenotyping, including molecular phenotyping (e.g. transcriptomics and metabolomics), with most recent advances in information technology and artificial intelligence to boost the conservation of European crop genetic resources and promote their use and valorisation. (pulsesincrease.eu)
  • Cristobal Uauy, Principal Investigator of the study at the John Innes Centre, says: "Our understanding of genomes has enabled to dramatic progress in breeding and cultivation practices for other crops such as maize or rice. (rural21.com)
  • For years, Rajeev Varshney has been using genome-assisted breeding techniques to create hardy crops. (iitm.ac.in)
  • As they gathered more knowledge on these plants, the roadblocks to creating better varieties in these crops began to clear, and Varshney's research gathered pace. (iitm.ac.in)
  • Genotyping-by-sequencing was performed for 7,745 winter wheat PGR samples from the German Federal ex situ genebank at IPK Gatersleben and for 325 modern cultivars. (bvsalud.org)
  • We have assessed whether the highly parallel Illumina GoldenGateĀ® Genotyping Assay is suitable for the screening of a BAC library of the polyploid Brassica napus genome. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Frontiers in Plant Science. (umn.edu)
  • The preparative yield of tuber starch is a polygenic trait that is associated with a number of SNPs from various regions and chromosomes in the potato genome. (peerj.com)
  • Genomes in malignant tumors often house sections of chromosomes that are deleted, duplicated or fused together. (agbt.org)
  • The sequencing of strain LS3 revealed that the nuclear genome of A. adeninivorans is 11.8 Mb long and consists of four chromosomes with regional centromeres. (biomedcentral.com)
  • NGMLR and Sniffles are long-read sequencing analysis methods to study the longer fragments of DNA, a breakthrough that may yield critical information about how cancer genomes evolve. (agbt.org)
  • More nonā€seed plant genomes are needed to unravel how plant genomes evolve, and to understand whether the P . patens genome structure is typical for mosses or bryophytes. (sequentiabiotech.com)
  • Both the pathogen and the plant are under high selective pressure to rapidly adapt and co-evolve in what is usually referred to as molecular arms race. (frontiersin.org)
  • The challenge here was not only the size but also the particular structure of the wheat genome, which is polyploid and comprises three individual genomes with different antecedents. (rural21.com)
  • Combining the power of multiplex-PCR assays with a multidimensional pooling system may prove to be especially challenging in a polyploid genome. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In polyploid genomes two classes of SNPs need to be distinguished, polymorphisms between accessions (intragenomic SNPs) and those differentiating between homoeologous genomes (intergenomic SNPs). (biomedcentral.com)
  • It is demonstrated that intergenomic SNPs represent a powerful tool for BAC library screening of a polyploid genome. (biomedcentral.com)
  • We find that 57% of the genome comprises transposable elements (TEs), some of which may be actively transposing during the life cycle. (sequentiabiotech.com)
  • This sequencing bias remains despite the number of recent publications of yeast genome sequences. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Thus, studies in Brassica napus can draw on resources that have been assembled for the progenitor genomes. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Later, treatments with ionizing radiation or mutagenic agents facilitated dramatically increased mutation rates, which remarkably extended the genetic diversity of crop plants. (ipk-gatersleben.de)
  • For us, ancient DNA works like a time capsule that allows us to travel back in history and look into the domestication of crop plants at distinct time points in the past," explains Johannes Krause, Director of the Department of Archaeogentics at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena. (mpg.de)
  • His career started as a research fellow at the Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut in 1998 and in 2000, he moved to Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben as a post-doctoral research fellow where he stayed until 2003. (wikipedia.org)
  • The German researchers were from the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) in Gatersleben and the Helmholtz Centre in Munich. (rural21.com)
  • Varshney, then a research scientist at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, at Gatersleben (in central Germany), was attending a conference in Bologna. (iitm.ac.in)
  • The transcription atlas now published for the wheat genome shows the direction in which research is developing, the Helmholtz Centre notes. (rural21.com)
  • To share these potentially dark data in a FAIR way and master these challenges the ELIXIR Germany/de.NBI service Plant Genomic and Phenomics Research Data Repository (PGP) implements an on-premise approach, which allows research data to be kept in place and wrapped in FAIR-aware software infrastructure. (bvsalud.org)
  • Stress-adaptive cell plasticity in target tissues and cells for plant biomass growth is important for yield stability. (frontiersin.org)
  • Cardoso and Arnholdt-Schmitt, 2013 ), since it influences the stability of plant biomass and yield production. (frontiersin.org)
  • An analysis of the genome and its transcriptome revealed enzymes with biotechnological potential, such as two extracellular tannases (Atan1p and Atan2p) of the tannic-acid catabolic route, and a new pathway for the assimilation of n-butanol via butyric aldehyde and butyric acid. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The following 11 traits of agronomic importance were measured:Plant height(HT), heading date(HD), spike number/plant(SNP), spikelet number/spike(SLS), spike weight/plant(SWP), single spike weight(SSW), kernel number/plant(KNP), kernel number/spike(KNS), kernel number/spikelet(KNL), 100 grain weight(GWH) and grain yield/plant(YLD). (sicau.edu.cn)
  • It has become evident that these transcription factors are essential components in the regulation of a multitude of traits in plants, including traits of agronomic importance such as development, senescence, tolerance to both biotic and abiotic stresses, and hormone responses. (biomedcentral.com)
  • By examining an unstable genome, Schatz identified almost 20,000 structural alterations - changes previously missed by other researchers when examining shorter DNA fragments. (agbt.org)
  • A thirteen-year scientific effort has culminated in a paper published in the journal 'Science' on the 17th August: An international research team joined forces to map the genome of bread wheat. (rural21.com)
  • The independent research group Meiosis (ME) primarily funded by the European Research Council (project MEIOBARMIX) is interested in the process of plant meiosis that generates genetic variation through homologous recombination. (ipk-gatersleben.de)
  • Dr. Adam Phillippy is a Senior Investigator and head of the Genome Informatics Section at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). (agbt.org)
  • Therefore, L. minor (Fig. 1 a) was put forward as a model system to study fundamental plant research and has been shown to contribute to the understanding of the photoperiodic control of flowering [ 15 , 16 ] and the discovery of auxin biosynthesis and sulfur assimilation pathways [ 17 , 18 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Page led the research with PhD student Steve Gagne, who discovered OAC, and postdoctoral researcher Jake Stout, who discovered hexanoyl-CoA synthetase (reported earlier this year in The Plant Journal). (medicalmarijuana411.com)
  • Funding for this research was provided by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), the Genome Canada PhytoMetaSyn project, Genome Prairie, Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture and the National Research Council. (medicalmarijuana411.com)
  • Plant research for robust phenotypes that show stability in growth performance is crucial, but also the most critical and most expensive step in breeding. (frontiersin.org)
  • In recent years, research in the regulatory roles of members of the plant-specific NAC ( N AM, A TAF-1,2, C UC) transcription factor family has increased considerably. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Abiotic Stress Signaling in Plants: Functional Genomic Intervention. (wikipedia.org)
  • Plant genetic resources (PGR) stored at genebanks are humanity's crop diversity savings for the future. (bvsalud.org)
  • The great efforts spent in the maintenance of past diversity in genebanks are rationalized by the potential role of plant genetic resources (PGR) in future crop improvement-a concept whose practical implementation has fallen short of expectations. (bvsalud.org)
  • His laboratory has assessed the functional impact of genome structural changes, such as CNVs and balance rearrangements. (agbt.org)
  • Such cooperation will continue the extraordinary progress made so far in uncovering the links between genotypic variation and phenotypic variation in agricultural plants. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Global scientific deliberation on genetic and crop management approaches to fight drought Great advances have been made in recent years in understanding the molecular basis of plant responses and plant tolerance to drought stress. (icrisat.org)
  • Plants from a full sib mapping family were used in a drought experiment, in which the growth rate and relative water content (RWC) identified two pools of ten plants contrasting in their tolerance to drought. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Traditional plant breeding, that harnesses natural genetic variation arising during meiosis, will have a key role to deliver crop improvements in the near future. (ipk-gatersleben.de)
  • Finally, we will look at some of the recent developments and litigation pertaining to plant varieties in India. (ciopora-academy.org)
  • Plant breeders can now look for cannabis strains that lack key parts of the cannabinoid-making pathway, which would allow for zero-THC varieties (current Canadian regulations call for no more than 0.3 per cent THC for industrial hemp, compared to 15 per cent or higher in the more potent marijuana varieties). (medicalmarijuana411.com)
  • As an agricultural scientist, Rajeev Varshney was only too aware, back in 2005-2007, that just as with plants, it takes time for ideas to germinate, grow, blossom - and finally come to fruition. (iitm.ac.in)
  • One of the most striking results from the expression analysis was that the drought sensitive plants were characterised by having approximately twice the number of differentially expressed transcript tags than the tolerant plants after drought. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In this paper, we perform a genome-wide association study using a 22K SNP potato array to identify for the first time genomic regions associated with starch granule morphology and to increase number of known genome loci associated with potato starch yield. (peerj.com)
  • In earlier studies, a reduction of plant height, ear height, fresh yield, and grain yield as well as an earlier flowering was observed in BYDV inoculated maize compared to non-inoculated maize plants [ 3 - 5 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • To improve water and nutrient acquisition from the soil, plants can modulate their root system architecture. (nature.com)
  • Genetic diversity analysis is a fundamental work for effective management and utilization of plant germplasm. (mdpi.com)
  • Ustilago maydis , a biotrophic fungal pathogen that infects maize plants, produces effectors that target hubs in the immune network of the host cell. (frontiersin.org)
  • Whether you're an industry professional, academic, student or just interested in learning more about plant variety protection and IP rights, this workshop is for you! (ciopora-academy.org)