Sentences with phrase «plant genome research»

This project was supported by the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program (grant number 2012 -67013-19460) from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, USDA Hatch program funds to multiple researchers in this project, NSF Plant Genome Research Project # 1238014, the USDA - ARS, the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, the Iowa Corn Promotion Board, the Nebraska Corn Board, the Minnesota Corn Research and Promotion Council, the Illinois Corn Marketing Board, and the National Corn Growers Association.

As world leaders in plant genome research, Cornell University, Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI), the USDA - ARS, and the U.S. Plant, Soil, and Nutrition Laboratory are host to many outstanding research labs.

Each student is involved in the Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP), the Bioinformatics Program or the Science Education Program.

With about $ 540,000 provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation Plant Genome Research Program as part of the total project's $ 2.9 - million in funding, he will be able to learn whether that protein plays a similarly crucial role in crops like tomatoes.

It is part of a national plant genome research initiative established by the Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Boyce Thompson Institute's 2016 Plant Genome Research Program Symposium is Thursday, August 11 from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the BTI Atrium and Auditorium located at 533 Tower Road on the Cornell University campus.

BTI's Plant Genome Research Program hosted 29 undergraduate and high school students for a summer of hands - on lab work, bioinformatics training, and mentoring by scientists at BTI, Cornell University and the USDA Holley Center.

Support for the undergraduate intern program comes from the National Science Foundation through the Plant Genome Research Program grant awarded to Professor Georg Jander of BTI and Professor Jian Hua of Cornell University.

This work was funded in part by grants from the National Science Foundation Plant Genome Research Program (IOS - 1126971 and IOS - 1546218), the Zegar Family Foundation (A16 - 0051) and the NYU Abu Dhabi Research Institute (G1205) to M.D.P., and from the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) to D.Q.F. (NE / N010957 / 1).

These workshops have presented an important opportunity to bring together scientists who are contributing actively to topics such as aquaculture, farmed animal biotechnology, biodiversity, plant genome research, cellular microbiology, and AIDS vaccine research and diagnostics.

Jerry Miksche, director of the US Department of Agriculture's Plant Genome Research Program, says that more British effort on wheat would be «good logic, in that Great Britain's research on wheat has made great strides».

Also online, an interactive feature including informational graphics, video clips, and more, as well as accompanying Web resources, explore how plant genome research is contributing to our understanding of plant biology and evolution and leading to tangible benefits for society.

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The researches found that the transgene was inserted into an active region of the genome, thereby disrupting the coding sequence and ultimately the function of the plants own OsAux1 gene.

This type of research involves interdisciplinary teams of climate - change scientists, biologists, geneticists, modellers and engineers who are using and developing new technologies and research platforms to unlock the vast stores of information within plant genomes.

The thale cress, Arabidopsis thaliana, was the first plant to have its entire genome sequenced and is popular in biology research.

The shared genome map cries out for shared research, but the competitive advantage to plant breeders has apparently ruled out cooperation within the European Union.

Dr Chatterjee's research uses an approach called TILLING (Targeting Induced Lesions In The Genome), an established non-GM method for creating and discovering new traits in plants.

Previous research had shown that genome sizes vary widely across different species of insects or plants, a telltale sign of fluctuation.

On 20 December 2013, a paper by the Amborella Genome Sequencing Project that includes a full description of the analyses performed by the project, as well as implications for flowering plant research, will be published in the journal Science.

However, they show considerable genetic overlap with present - day domesticated lines from the region,» explains Nils Stein, who directed the comparison of the ancient genome with modern genomes at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, with the support of Robbie Waugh and colleagues at the James Hutton Institute, Dundee, Scotland, and Gary Muehlbauer, University of Minnesota, USA.

Ten years ago, the International Barley Genome Sequencing Consortium, which is led by Nils Stein of the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research in Germany, set out to assemble a complete reference sequence of the barley gGenome Sequencing Consortium, which is led by Nils Stein of the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research in Germany, set out to assemble a complete reference sequence of the barley genomegenome.

The research, «Genome of the pitcher plant Cephalotus reveals genetic changes associated with carnivory,» which will be published on Feb. 6, 2017 in Nature Ecology and Evolution.

The research team conducted experiments on the roots of Arabidopsis, a plant often used as a «model organism» in plant biology and had its genome fully sequenced in 2000.

«Setaria viridis is a small plant that can produce a lot of seeds faster, has a pretty simple genome and can serve as a model for research.»

His development of a method for stable transformation of land plant chloroplast genomes, once thought to be impossible, established the field of chloroplast genome engineering in higher plants and has led to an explosion of research concerning the chloroplast genome's role in photosynthesis, functional analysis of plastid genes by reverse genetics, and mechanisms of plastid gene regulation.

Researchers working at the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization in Japan have found that epigenetic tags, such as methyl groups, on some areas of the plant genome can cause interference with gene editors and reduce their efficiency.

In his research, Dr. Torres examines the properties of plant polyploidy (genome doubling), the concomitant phenomenon of gene duplication, and the evolution of genes, gene families, chromosomes, and genomes following genome doubling in angiosperms.

His research interest focuses on 1) development and application of TALEN and CRISPR technologies for targeted genome editing in plant species, and 2) molecular mechanism of plant / microbe interactions and crop disease resistance engineering by using the bacterial blight of rice as a model.

The government of Alberta and private funders have given C$ 25.2 million ($ 22.1 million) to two new research programs that will study genomics to discover new ways to use microbes in energy production and new uses for plants in medicine and in industry, Genome Alberta said today...

Now that the genome sequence of one variety of tomato is known, it will also be easier and much less expensive for seed companies and plant breeders to sequence other varieties for research and development, he added.

December 14, 2000 First plant genome completed A multi-national research team reports the completion of the Arabidopsis genome in the December 14, 2000 issue of Nature.

Pioneering research led by Indiana University has identified genes from a number of plant species, including the entire mitochondrial genomes from three green algae and one moss, in the mitochondrial genome of Amborella trichopoda.

Research interests include plant - pathogen interactions, crop genetics and genomics, genome sequencing, Brassicas, structural variation, diversity genomics, methylation

This research is challenging because many plant genomes are very large.

Rapid genome evolution can occur in predictable patterns, an international team of scientists has found whilst researching young plant species.

Genome Alberta announced C$ 25.2 million (US$ 22.2 million) in public / private funding over four years for two new genomic research projects, one targeted at enhanced recovery of fossil hydrocarbon resources from oil sands and coal beds through biological processes, the other focused on discovering plant genes that can be sequenced and used... Read more →

This type of research involves interdisciplinary teams of climate - change scientists, biologists, geneticists, modelers and engineers who are using and developing new technologies and research platforms to unlock the vast stores of information within plant genomes.

Prior to entering the legal profession, Mr. Koo led a team of biologists that sequenced the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana at a prominent genome research organization.