Dear Rosaceae Community Members,
During the Prunus workshop at the RGC3 Conference in New Zealand,
Cameron Peace, Eben Oqundiwin and I were asked to work on developing a
draft of QTL nomenclature suggestions that could be used to standardize
QTL reporting within Prunus. I've attached a working document for the
community as a whole to comment on. Although we have concentrated on
Prunus, please note that the opportunity exists to expand these
suggestions to the entire Rosaceae family.
If you find this topic interesting and would like to be included in
future mailings, please follow this link to the Genome Database for
Rosaceae website
http://www.mainlab.clemson.edu/cgi-bin/gdr/signup_ROSACEAE-QTL-LIST.cgi
and sign up for the QTL topics mailing list. Once you have signed up
for the mailing list, you can use the email address
rosaceae-qtl-list(a)genome.clemson.edu to send mail to the subscribed
group. Communications from this mailing list can then be viewed at:
http://www.mainlab.clemson.edu/pipermail/rosaceae-qtl-list/
You may also address any comments and suggestions concerning this topic
directly to me - you'll find the contact information below. I look
forward to hearing from you!
Sincerely,
Jim Olmstead
Cherry Breeding - Washington State University
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James Olmstead
WSU-Prosser
24106 N. Bunn Rd.
Prosser, WA 99350
Office: 509-786-9249
Fax: 509-786-9370
Email: jwolmstead(a)wsu.edu
GDR Newsletter May 2006
Welcome to the fifh issue of the GDR newsletter. This newsletter is to
inform users about new or updated data and features in GDR and community
related news. Please feel free to provide feedback and news either
directly by email or via our online form. The online version can be found
at
http://www.mainlab.clemson.edu/gdr/newsletter/newsletter0506.shtml
Attached is the pdf version of this newsletter.
Community News
White Paper
The US National Rosaceae Genomic, Genetics and Breeding Executive
Committee have completed the US white paper on Rosaceae Genomics. It can
be downloaded from GDR and any comments can be addressed to the executive
committee chair, Dr Amy Iezonni.
Funding
1. A US based proposal, supported by strong international collaboration,
is being submitted to the NSF Plant Genome Comparative Sequencing program
in June. We are proposing to sequence the peach genome as a reference for
Rosaceae, with skim sequencing of strawberry and apple, and targeted deep
coverage of selected loci across multiple species. For more information
contact Bryon Sosinski of NC State.
2. A US based proposal is being submitted to the NSF Networking program in
June to fund a Rosaceae Informatics Network where international
bioinformatics researchers will meet regularly and develop a collaborative
bioinformatics infrastructure for the community database. For more
information contact Dorrie Main or Bert Abbott.
Conferences
The 3rd International Rosaceae Genomics Conference was held March 19-22,
2006, in Napier, New Zealand. Download the conference outcomes and the
abstracts from this meeting. The 4th International Rosaceae Genomics
Conference is scheduled to be held in Pućon, Chile in March 2008.
More details will be posted in the GDR conferences page as they become
available.
Employment
A faculty position in plant breeding is available at the Pontificia
Universidas Catolica de Chile.
What's new at GDR?
1. SNPs (Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms)
2. Updates to the peach physical map
3. Updates to the Comparative Mapping Viewer CMap
4. Marker/Map data template available
5. Rosaceae Genomics White papers
6. Species page/Project page
7. New header bar
8. Community pages and mailing lists
9. New publication from GDR
10. Additions to the publication database
1. SNPs (Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms)
The new Fragaria, Malus, Prunus, Pyrus, and Rosa unigenes have been
searched for SNPs using the software package AutoSNP. A total of 14,801
SNPs are available to be viewed and searched, including 10426 SNPs from
Malus, 3776 from Prunus, 316 from Rosa, and 283 from Fragaria.
2. Updates to the peach physical map
The latest peach physical map contains 18387 BACs and 1367 contigs.
Physical length of the contigs is appoximately 210-230Mb and that of the
anchored contigs is 33Mb. WebFPC / WebChrom displays the peach physical
map. Anchored peach BAC contigs can be accessed directly from the prunus
reference TxE map from the GDR map viewer.
3. Updates to the Comparative Mapping Viewer CMap
Four new maps (Apricot GxV F1 2002, Apricot LxL F2 2003, Peach AxJ 2005
and 815x903BC diploid Fragaria 2006) have been added to the genetic maps
available through CMap. This now makes a total of 24 Rosaceae CMaps are
available through CMap at GDR.
These include:
Prunus: Prunus bin map 2005, TxE almond x peach F2 2004, Myrobalan Plum
x Almond- Peach hybrid 2004, GxN almond x peach F2 2001
Peach: Peach AxJ 2005, Peach PMP2 2005, Peach peach x P. ferganensis BC1
PxF 2001, Peach JxF 2004, Peach Sc x B 1998
Apricot: Apricot GxV F1 2002, Apricot LxL F2 2003
Almond: Almond FxT 2000, Almond FxB F1 1998
Sour Cherry: PcerasusEB, PcerasusRS
Strawberry: FVxFN diploid Fragaria reference map, 815x903BC diploid
Fragaria 2006
Apple: MNY75441-58, MNY75441-67, MWijcik_McIntosh, MRomeBeauty,
MRomeBeauty_2, MWhiteAngel, MWhiteAngel_2
If you have mapping data that we can add, please contact us and we will
work with you to make your data available via GDR.
4. Marker/Map data template available
Efforts are underway to curate more extensive genetics data to GDR, and
data templates for map/marker/trait/polymorphism/gene/QTL/Diversity are
available.
5. Rosaceae Genomics White papers
The US National Rosaceae Genomic, Genetics and Breeding Executive
Committee have completed the US white paper on Rosaceae Genomics. They can
be downloaded from GDR and any comments can be submitted to the executive
committee chair, Dr Amy Iezonni.
6. Species page/Project page
GDR has been reorganized to enhance navigation in the website. We have
created specific species pages, under each genus where you can access all
the information related to that species in GDR. Go to apple, prunus,
almond, apricot, cherry, peach, rose, strawberry pages for all GDR
structural genomics, functional genomics and funded project information.
7. New header bar
Dropdown and left side navigation bars remodeled to enhance ease of access
to GDR data.
8. Community pages and mailing lists
The community page at GDR has been modified to make it easier to access
the community pages of interest. In addition new International and US
communication pages have been added, with new mailing lists to join (via a
web form). We encourage you to join the appropriate mailing lists and use
them to communicate to the community using these tools.
9. New publication from GDR
Synteny conservation between the Prunus genome and both the present and
ancestral Arabidopsis genomes. Sook Jung, Dorrie Main, Margaret Staton,
Ilhyung Cho, Tatyana Zhebentyayeva, Pere Arus and Albert Abbott. BMC
Genomics 2006, 7:81
10. Additions to the publication database
The publication database on GDR now contains publication data from
Agricola, the catalog of articles maintained by the National Agricultural
Library. 564 relevant publications are online and can be searched by
title, authors, keywords, and date published.
Subscription
Visit our mailing lists be added/removed to the available GDR mailing
lists. Once you have registered you may use the mailing lists to send out
relevant information the community and it will be stored in searchable web
archives. More information is available on each page on how to use them.
If you have any difficulties please contact us.
The GDR mailing list.
The International Rosaceae Genomics Community mailing list.
The USA Rosaceae Genomics Community mailing list.
Work in progress
1. Efforts to integrate more extensive map/marker data
We are updating our map/marker database structure to integrate the details
of molecular marker data such as primer sequences, source BAC/ESTs,
produce size and much more.
2. Creation of other databases within GDR
We are also creating new database modules such as gene, trait loci, QTL,
polymorphism/allele, germplasm, and diversity data.
Dear Rosaceae colleagues,
I am forwarding a note from Dr. Susan Brown at Cornell about forming four
sub-committees
that was discussed in Rosaceae community meeting held at IFTA conference
in Hershey, PA.
> Team Members Needed for Planning:
> There are four general theme areas of research in the Rosaceae white
paper (indicated in bold text below) and we are forming four sub
committees for planning purposes. Anyone with an interest in one or
more of these topics, and a willingness to participate in some
pre-organization work for strategic planning are encouraged to contact
the scientific coordinator for each group at the Email addresses below.
Please do not reply to the list serve. We would appreciate a response by
March 10th. Identifying those in each core area interested in
participating in the discussion will facilitate future strategic
planning. The Committee is charged with figuring out how such strategic
planning will happen and how it will be structured. The entire Rosaceae
community will participate in the strategic planning, but this committee
sets the framework.
> Reducing the dependence on chemical pesticides by improving biological
resistance: Herb Aldwinckle at hsa1(a)cornell.edu.
> Reducing labor costs (Plant architecture): Susan Brown at skb3(a)cornell.edu.
> Improving fresh and processed fruit quality, storage and safety: Abhaya
Dandekar at amdandekar(a)ucdavis.edu.
Improving profitability of the Rosaceae fruit industry (abiotic stress
tolerance): Michael Wisniewski at mwisniew(a)afrs.ars.usda.gov.
Dear All
This is to remind you that, registrations for the above conference close on
15 February 2006.
Registrations can be done online by visiting www.rgc3.co.nz
<http://www.rgc3.co.nz/> . Please complete both sections of the
registration process.
If you are requiring accommodation this also needs to be reserved through us
by 15 February as after that date we need to release any unallocated rooms.
Please ensure that when you register you include all activities that you may
wish to partake in as numbers need to be confirmed prior to conference.
If you have submitted an abstract and have not registered then we remind you
that you need to do so.
For those who have already registered, we look forward to meeting you at
Conference.
Regards Sue Page
Encore Events
PO Box 12097, Ahuriri, Napier
B 06 833 7440
F 06 833 7447
M 027 669 1345
E sue(a)encore-events.net.nz
GDR Newsletter January 2006
Welcome to the fourth issue of the GDR newsletter. This newsletter is to
inform users about new or updated data and features in GDR and community
related news. Please feel free to provide feedback and news either
directly by email or via our online form. The online version can be found
at
http://www.mainlab.clemson.edu/gdr/newsletter/newsletter0106.shtml
Attached is the pdf version of this newsletter.
Community News
1. Fruit and Nut Workshop, Saturday January 14, 8 am-12 pm. Plant and
Animal Genome Conference XIV, San Diego, January 14-18, 2006. Conference
organizer: Dr Amy Iezzoni. A Rosaceae genomics roundtable meeting will be
held on Sunday January 15th, 8-10 am and the Rosaceae executive committee
will meet on Sunday January 15th, 10am-12pm.
2. 3rd International Rosaceae Genomics Conference will be held in Napier,
New Zealand, March 19-23, 2006.
3. The International Fruit Tree Association Annual Conference will be held
in Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA, February 26-March 1, 2006
What's new at GDR?
1. Proposal to renew funding for GDR submitted to the NSF Plant Genome
Program.
2. New EST libraries are available.
3. Rosaceae Unigene v2 with enhanced annotation available.
4. Prunus bin map data is available in CMap and marker search engine.
5. Enhanced SSR server now available with primer generating option.
6. More databases are available for blast/fasta sequence similarity search.
7. Data available for the three peach BACs that are completely sequenced.
8. New Roseaceae Genomics Executive Committee web page.
9. The GDR publications database now contains 242 papers relevant to
Rosaceae genetics/genomics.
1. GDR Renewal Proposal Submitted to NSF Plant Genome Program
In November 2005, a multi-institution proposal was submitted to the
National Science Foundation Plant Genome Program to renew funding support
for GDR through August 2009. The proposal if funded will significantly
enhance the functionality and usefulness of GDR for the rosaceae
community. If you's like more information on this proposal please contact
Dorrie Main.
2. New EST libraries are available.
The diploid strawberry species, Fragaria vesca, a putative genome donor to
the octoploid, cultivated species (Fragaria x ananassa) is being been
developed as a model system for genetic and genomic research in
strawberry.Tom Davis at the University of New Hampshire, USA, has provided
2717 ESTs from the unopened flower buds of diploid strawberries. A full
analysis results of his library can be viewed/downloaded from the project
page and the ESTs can be queried at the EST search site.
Peach (Prunus persica) represents a model species for prunus and a
reference species for Rosaceae. To develop an extensive Prunus EST
database for identification and cloning of genes important to fruit and
tree development, Bert Abbott at Clemson University, USA, generated 8832
high-quality expressed sequence tags (ESTs) from a peach cDNA library of
shoot tissue. After assembly and annotation, a putative peach unigene set
consisting of 5381 ESTs was defined. Full analysis results of his library
can be viewed/downloaded from the project page and the ESTs can be queried
at the EST search site.
3. Rosaceae Unigene v2 with enhanced annotation available.
A second version of the Rosaceae family unigene is now available. A new
assembly process is being utilized; the ESTs are assembled using CAP3
within each genera (Fragaria, Malus, Prunus, Pyrus, and Rosa), and these
assemblies are compiled and re-assembled together to produce the
family-wide unigene. The new Rosaceae Unigene contains 72114 unigenes.
Putative function has been assigned using the arabidopsis protein database
and will be further expanded using the swissprot and NCBI nr protein
databases. The unigenes have been analyzed for microsatellites and the
results including suggested primers can be downloaded. Please see each
project page (Fragaria, Malus, Prunus, Rosa and Rosaceae) to view/download
all the GDR unigene data.
4. Prunus bin map is available in CMap and marker search engine.
A Prunus bin map (Howad et al., 2005), is now available in GDR. CMap
displays the prunus bin map with bin names and the first/ last markers of
each bin, and the bin-mappded markers are displayed in each bin page. For
example, all the bin mapped markers of the first bin in G1 are shown in
bin 1:14 page. All the markers in the prunus bin map can be queried
through the GDR marker search page.
5. Enhanced SSR server now available with primer generating option.
The online SSR server at GDR has been enhanced to include an option to
have primers generated for the sequences that users wish to data mine for
microsatellites.
6. More databases are available for blast/fasta sequence similarity search.
The databases available for blast/fasta sequence similarity search
includes the following: peach ESTs, unigenes and ESTs with SSR's, BAC
anchored peach ESTs, mapped peach ESTs, almond ESTs and unigenes (Abbott,
Clemson U); peach ESTs and unigenes, peach ESTs with SSR's (Vendramin, CRA
ISF); octoploid strawberry ESTs, unigenes, and ESTs with SSRs (Folta, U of
Florida); diploid strawberry ESTs and unigenes (Davis, U of New
Hampshire); ESTs of Fragaria, Malus, Prunus, Pyrus, Rosa, and entire
Rosaceae family from NCBI dbEST; NCBI Rosaceae genomic sequences; NCBI
Rosaceae protein sequences; Arabidopsis protein sequences from TAIR. A
detailed description of the databases is available in each search engine.
The blast/fasta sequence servers return the output of the searches in both
parsed excel file and as a raw output file with visual alignments.
7. Data available for the three peach BACs that are completely sequenced.
Anchored ESTs/markers and the sequences for the three BACs (082I18, 028F08
and pPn31C7) can be accessed from BAC search site. An online annotation
pipeline is currently under development by the GDR team.
8. New Rosaceae Executive Committee web page created to provide a
communication portal for information and reports generated by the
committee.
9. The GDR publications database now contains 242 papers relevant to
Rosaceae genetics/genomics. New publications since our last newsletter are
listed below:
1. Lazzari B et al. ESTree db: a tool for peach functional genomics.
BMC Bioinformatics. 2005 Dec 1;6 Suppl 4:S16.
2. Patocchi A, Walser M, Tartarini S, Broggini GA, Gennari F, Sansavini
S, Gessler C Identification by genome scanning approach (GSA) of a
microsatellite tightly associated with the apple scab resistance gene
Vm. Genome 2005 Aug;48(4):630-6.
3. Oosumi T, Gruszewski HA, Blischak LA, Baxter AJ, Wadl PA, Shuman JL,
Veilleux RE, Shulaev V High-efficiency transformation of the diploid
strawberry (Fragaria vesca) for functional genomics. Planta. 2005 Dec
1;:1-12.
4. Gillen, A.M., Bliss, F.A. Identification and Mapping of Markers
Linked to the Mi Gene for Root-knot Nematode Resistance in Peach J.
Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 130(1):24-33.
5. Tzanetakis IE, Martin RR New features in the genus Ilarvirus
revealed by the nucleotide sequence of Fragaria chiloensis latent
virus. Virus Res 2005 Sep;112(1-2):32-7.
6. Verde I, Lauria M, Dettori MT, Vendramin E, Balconi C, Micali S,
Wang Y, Marrazzo MT, Cipriani G, Hartings H, Testolin R, Abbott AG,
Motto M, Quarta R Microsatellite and AFLP markers in the Prunus persica
[L. (Batsch)]xP. ferganensis BC(1)linkage map: saturation and coverage
improvement. Theor Appl Genet 2005 Aug 9;:1-9.
7. Howad W, Yamamoto T, Dirlewanger E, Testolin R, Cosson P, Cipriani
G, Monforte AJ, Georgi L, Abbott AG, Arus P Mapping with a Few Plants:
Using Selective Mapping for Microsatellite Saturation of the Prunus
Reference Map. Genetics 2005 Aug 22;.
8. Holland D, Larkov O, Bar-Ya'akov I, Bar E, Zax A, Brandeis E, Ravid
U, Lewinsohn E Developmental and varietal differences in volatile ester
formation and acetyl-CoA: alcohol acetyl transferase activities in
apple (Malus domestica Borkh.) fruit. J Agric Food Chem 2005 Sep
7;53(18):7198-203.
9. Gao ZS, Weg WE, Schaart JG, Arkel GV, Breiteneder H,
Hoffmann-Sommergruber K, Gilissen LJ Genomic characterization and
linkage mapping of the apple allergen genes Mal d 2 (thaumatin-like
protein) and Mal d 4 (profilin). Theor Appl Genet 2005 Sep 6;:1-11.
10. Mohapatra A, Rout GR Identification and analysis of genetic
variation among rose cultivars using random amplified polymorphic DNA. Z
Naturforsch [C] 2005 Jul-Aug;60(7-8):611-7.
11. Lalli DA, Decroocq V, Blenda AV, Schurdi-Levraud V, Garay L, Le Gall
O, Damsteegt V, Reighard GL, Abbott AG Identification and mapping of
resistance gene analogs (RGAs) in Prunus: a resistance map for Prunus.
Theor Appl Genet 2005 Sep 30;:1-10.
12. Mehli L, Kjellsen TD, Dewey FM, Hietala AM A case study from the
interaction of strawberry and Botrytis cinerea highlights the benefits
of comonitoring both partners at genomic and mRNA level. New Phytol 2005
Nov;168(2):465-74.
13. Lin C, Mueller LA, Carthy JM, Crouzillat D, Petiard V, Tanksley SD
Coffee and tomato share common gene repertoires as revealed by deep
sequencing of seed and cherry transcripts. Theor Appl Genet 2005 Nov
5;:1-17.
14. Xie H, Sui Y, Chang FQ, Xu Y, Ma RC SSR allelic variation in almond
(Prunus dulcis Mill.). Theor Appl Genet 2005 Nov 24;:1-7.
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Work in progress
Online EST sequence processing pipeline
Annotating peach, plum and apricot BACs.
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Developing a rosaceae BAC annotation pipeline
Extending the gene and QTL data available in CMap
Integrating data from the USDA CSREES NRI projects
Goodday everyone
Please note the following deadlines:
REGISTRATION - early bird closes on 31 December 2005, New Zealand time. To
take advantage of the early bird rate you can register online www.rgc3.co.nz
and click on the registration tab where you will find all the options
available. If you register online then please ensure you complete both
sections.
ABSTRACTS - for those who have submitted abstract titles and have not yet
submitted their abstract these are due by 31 December 2005, New Zealand
time. The instructions on the submission of abstracts and format
requirements are also available on http://www.rgc3.co.nz Please do not
forget to select the most appropriate topic area and include with the
abstract.
We have received a good number of very interesting titles and are looking
forward to the meeting.
Best wishes for a Very Merry Christmas and a Great 2006.
Regards Sue Page
Encore Events Management Ltd
13a Charles St, Westshore
Napier, New Zealand
Ph/Fax (06) 835 9549
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Dear All
Thank you to those who have already submitted Abstract Titles for the above
conference.
However, we wish to remind all those who haven't submitted anything yet that
the FINAL DAY FOR SUBMISSION IS 31 OCTOBER 2005.
If you have any queries please refer to www.rgc3.co.nz, or contact me
direct.
We look forward to receiving your Abstract Titles.
Regards Sue Page
Conference Manager
Encore Events Management Ltd
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Napier, New Zealand
Ph/Fax: (06)835 9549
Mobile: 027 669 1345
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