Dear Cotton Researchers,
The CottonGen team is pleased to announce the availability of the draft G. raimondii (D genome) presented in the Wang et al., 2012 Nature Genetics publication, graciously provided by Drs. Shuxun Yu, Jun Wang and Yu-Xian Zhu to CottonGen. The assembly includes their pseudomolecules, predicted genes, non-coding RNA and repeats. In addition, the CottonGen team has aligned to the genome several commonly used resources such as CottonGen RFLP, SSR, and SNP markers, NCBI cotton dbSNP, CottonGen unigenes, PlantGDB unigenes, Josh Udall's 454-derived transcript contigs, NCBI cotton dbEST, NCBI cotton mRNA and protein sequences from various plant genomes. Additionally, the gene models have been annotated with Gene Ontology (GO), InterPro (IPR) domains and KEGG pathways and orthologs. The assembly and all ancillary annotations and alignments are available for exploration with GBrowse on the CottonGen website and are available for sequence comparison on our BLAST servers. All files are available for download on the CottonGen G. raimondii genome page or from our FTP repository.
In the near future we will be adding a page for each gene providing all functional and structural details. Another announcement will be sent when these additional resources are available.
Here are some quick links:
Draft G. raimondii genome page
http://www.cottongen.org/species/Gossypium_raimondii/bgi-cgp_genome_v1.0
GBrowse Viewer:
http://www.cottongen.org/gb/gbrowse/CGP_Dgenome/
FTP downloads:
ftp://ftp.bioinfo.wsu.edu/species/Gossypium_raimondii/CGP-BGI_G.raimondii_D…
NCBI BLAST (returns results to screen):
http://www.cottongen.org/tools/blast
Batch BLAST (returns results parsed in an excel file):
http://www.cottongen.org/tools/batch_blast
The CottonGen team
Dear ICGI member,
we would like to make you aware of upcoming courses in Plant Breeding developed by UC Davis, Asia Plant Breeding Academy and UC Davis Plant Breeding Academysm
Allen Van Deynze
UC Davis receives a royal visit from Thailand
Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand visited UC Davis on May 14- 15, 2012. The Princess of Thailand and senior Thai academic scientists accompanying her showed high interest in the newest developments in agricultural and nutritional research presented to them by UC Davis faculty. HRH the Princess is a knowledgeable and dedicated patron of several charitable organizations that are active in agriculture, nutrition and community development in Thailand and other countries of Southeast Asia.
At the UC Davis workshop, Allen Van Deynze and Kent Branford of the UC Davis Seed Biotechnology Center (SBC) had the honor to present a summary of recent SBC activities. Allen described a new SBC educational program, the Asian Plant Breeding Academy that will begin in November 2012 in Thailand in collaboration with the Asian & Pacific Seed Association. Kent Bradford updated HRH the Princess on a novel technology (desiccant drying beads) that is being implemented to address the challenge of safely drying and storing seeds under humid conditions. This project, supported by a USAID-funded HortCRSP grant, is based on technology developed by a Thai company (Rhino Research Group, Phitchit) and is being implemented in Thailand, Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Kenya and other countries. Such expertise and methods will be instrumental for adoption of advanced seed technologies in Thailand's agricultural industry.
The UC Davis Plant Breeding Academy also begin in September, 2012 at UC Davis. For more information on the UC Davis, SBC and Plant Breeding Academy in Asia visit http://pba.ucdavis.edu or contact Jeannette Martins, jmartins(a)ucdavis.edu<mailto:jmartins@ucdavis.edu>.
Dear CottonGen Members,
Please accept our apologies for the two emails you have received from the CottonGen mailing list by members with no content included. We have changed the settings so that any postings go first to our curator for moderation. From now on you will only receive email communication from this list that we decide is pertinent to our members. As members you can still post to this list (cottongen-list(a)cottongen.org<mailto:cottongen-list@cottongen.org>) but it will be accepted or rejected by a moderator.
Sincerely
The CottonGen Development Team
Dorrie Main, PhD
Associate Professor of Bioinformatics
Dept. of Horticulture and landscape Architecture
Washington State University
45 Johnson Hall
Pullman, WA 99164-6414
Tel: 509-335-2774 (office)
Email: dorrie(a)wsu.edu<mailto:dorrie@wsu.edu><mailto:dorrie@wsu.edu>
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