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.
Not exact matches
Accomplishing that, the Cornell University professor believes, means going beyond the identification and characterization of rice genes or curating a comparative
plant -
genome database.
Next, they should sequence the chloroplasts of a few
plants individually and align them to the reference
genome to create the basic
database used by the program.
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.
The
database allows researchers to access the
genomes of Solanaceae
plants such as tomato, potato and eggplant.