Sentences with phrase «other plant genomes»

By comparing this plant's DNA with other plant genomes, researchers are getting a stronger sense of how flowering plants came to dominate Earth.

Although the Arabidopsis sequence can itself serve as a guide to other plant genomes, plans are underway to sequence the rice genome and researchers are debating the merits of sequencing maize and other crops.

Not exact matches

The resulting backcrossed plants and information about their genomes, «shows a way forward for improving chickpeas and many other crops too,» says von Wettberg, a professor in UVM's Department of Plant and Soil Science.

As for the identities of Mendel's other four genes, Weeden says he expects them to be revealed in the next few years as more plant genomes give up their sequences.

To fully understand a plant's nuclear genome, scientists must also study two other genomes found within plant cells — in the «powerhouse» mitochondria and in the photosynthesizing chloroplast organelles.

Defined narrowly — as a discipline distinct from other areas of plant biology — plant genomics is the study of the organization of genomes themselves.

«Our vision is to apply the same approach but rapidly screen non-synthetic, biological or «natural» molecules cloned from human or other genomes, including those of plants, animals and microbes,» he said.

Compared with earlier methods to tweak the genomes of bacteria, plants, laboratory mice and human cells, the Crispr - Cas9 gene - editing method is fast, precise and cheap, an order of magnitude better than the others.

Other times, the desired trait, such as the ability to resist certain pests, can be absent in plant genomes.

Over the longer term, the identification of the coffee tree genome sequence opens up new possibilities for varietal improvement, knowledge of the specific functions of the genes (in particular those specific to coffee trees), the possibility of transferring results to other species, and refining diagnostic tools for the function of the plant.

One is that knocking out the excision repair system leads to an increase in plant genome mutations even when the plant is kept in the dark, away from UV or other forms of light.

First, samples of leaves from these plants are collected for in vitro cultures to isolate the fungi; then the DNA and RNA of fungi are extracted to sequence them and, through bioinformatic analysis, the researcher can determine the expression, the presence or absence of genes in the genomes of a species against each other.

Whole - genome chips exist already for five other organisms: the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, a plant called Arabidopsis tumefaciens, and the gut bacterium Escherichia coli.

Still - unfunded plan would start with all plants, animals, and other eukaryotes — some 1.5 million species — for the cost of the original human genome project

While looking for ways to make tomatoes and other crop plants more productive, BTI Assistant Professor Joyce Van Eck and former postdoctoral scientist Sarika Gupta developed a better method for «transforming» a tomato — a process that involves inserting DNA into the tomato genome and growing a new plant.

By consulting the database of the 1000 Genomes Project, the researchers found that the fused gene was evident in many diverse species of mosses, but not in other plants.

Its 3.8 million bases include the complete mitochondrial genomes of three green algae and one moss, as well as genes from other plants, evolutionary biologist Jeffrey Palmer of Indiana University, Bloomington, and his colleagues report today in another paper in Science.

Much of the mitochondrial DNA genome of the flowering plant Amborella trichopoda originated from other organisms.

But Amborella, which came later, has more: 36 MADS - box genes, and other flowering plants, which have undergone more whole genome duplications, have even more still, the researchers report.

A few other plants have big mitochondrial genomes — Amborella's is six times the typical size — but none have so much foreign DNA.

Early genome duplications in conifers and other seed plants, Science Advances (2015).

This work presents a genomic analysis of the UM270 gene functions as compared to other available pseudomonad genomes, highlighting the genetic and functional differences between each strain of this group of fluorescent and plant growth - promoting bacteria.

Microbiologist Mark Morrison, an associate professor at Ohio State's Department of Animal Sciences who is the consortium's coordinator, says its main goals are to pinpoint those parts of the bacterial genomes that play a role in degrading cellulose and other plant polysaccharides, and also to identify other genetic traits that are critical to the bacteria's colonization and persistence in the digestive systems of the host animals.

The sequencing of the tomato genome has implications for other plant species.

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.

We are investigating these and other allied questions using evolutionary genomic approaches, by performing comparative analyses of plant genomes, transcriptomes and proteomes.

They have also had an important role in projects to sequence the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana (the first plant genome sequence), the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, as well as the human genome and other important genomes.

Plant biologists have sequenced the genome of a particularly promising species of green alga, providing a blueprint for new discoveries in producing sustainable biofuels, antioxidants, and other valuable bioproducts.

Genome sequencing has helped scientists understand pets such as dogs and cats; agricultural animals like cows and pigs; crop plants such as rice, corn, barley; and a host of other living things.

How broadly this mode of evolutionary change is exploited in nature remains to be seen, but if the prevalence of repetitive elements within genes is any indicator, then mammals, insects, plants, and other genomes throughout the natural world may use this mechanism to achieve evolutionary agility.

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 →