Sentences with phrase «national plant genome»

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

However it's defined, the plant - genomics profession expanded greatly with the start of the National Plant Genome Initiative (NPGI), says Jeff Dangl, the John N. Couch Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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The USDA is negotiating a deal between the US and Britain on sharing data, whereby wheat information would be deposited in the National Agricultural Library's plant genome database in Maryland, and British scientists would receive software tools for interrogating the database.

New work published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by lead authors Michael Raissig and Emily Abrash features a collaboration born at Carnegie's Department of Plant Biology between Bergmann and John Vogel (now at the Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute) who met as postdocs at Carnegie.

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).

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.

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.

John McDowell of Virginia Tech worte an invited Commentary in the prestigious journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, comparing findings about the genomes of plant pathogens.

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.

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.

Joe Parker from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew gives a talk at London Calling 2016 on how he used the MinION to analyse plant genomes in a tent in the middle of Snowdonia National Park.

Real - time nanopore sequencing and analysis of plant genomes in a tent in Snowdonia National Park