Sentences with phrase «wheat genome»

A preliminary map of the bread wheat genome includes the locations of more than 75,000 genes.

The divide - and - conquer tactic also puts financing — and sequencing — the entire wheat genome more in reach.

As such, goat grass genes constitute a major component of the very large wheat genome.

Another complication is the fact that, like corn and the human genome, the bread wheat genome is rife with repetitive sequences.

Leading on from The Genome Analysis Centre's (TGAC) previous announcement of their new bread wheat genome assembly, the landmark resource is now publically available to download at the European Bioinformatics Institute's (EMBL - EBI) Ensembl database for full analysis.

The latest results for this project can be found on the CSHL wheat genome sequencing project page.

On the release of the full wheat genome data set, Project lead Prof Federica Di Palma, Director of Science at TGAC, said: «This is a remarkable achievement which exemplifies the kind of science that TGAC's skilled and multidisciplinary staff are able to deliver.

The findings present a compelling overview of the emmer wheat genome and its usefulness in an agricultural context for understanding traits in modern bread wheat.

With this fully assembled polyploid wheat genome, we identified the causal mutations in Brittle Rachis 1 (TtBtr1) genes controlling shattering, a key domestication trait.

To overcome these obstacles, Feuillet and her colleagues are attacking the bread wheat genome chromosome by chromosome — an early strategy used for sequencing the yeast genome and, initially, the human genome.

Finding the wheat VRN genes was difficult, given that that they do not resemble those found so far in Arabidopsis and that the unwieldy wheat genome has yet to be sequenced.

Researchers were able to study sequenced segments of the common wheat genome and look for a naturally occurring resistance gene.

Norwich Research Park's Earlham Institute the gets # 26.6 m to research wheat genome - Norfolk Eastern Daily Press Monday, April 17, 2017

«Analysis of the bread wheat genome using whole genome shotgun sequencing» is published online in Nature on November 29, 2012.

This is the most complete and accurate bread wheat genome assembly to date with 91 per cent (98,974 genes) of the total genome annotated and assembled — a total sequence length of 13.4 GB.

«Genome of wheat ancestor sequenced: Technological breakthrough will help decode massive bread wheat genome, accelerate wheat breeding.»

The International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium published a draft sequence of the bread wheat genome.

The wheat genome's data can be searched via the gene identifier in the text search box, or via the bioinformatics BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) to compare sequence matches.

Sequencing the bread wheat genome has long been considered an almost insurmountable task, due to its enormous size and complexity.

Undaunted, Graham Moore at the John Innes Centre began surveying the wheat genome.

The wheat genome is difficult to map for two reasons.

As part of the international effort to sequence the 17 — billion — base - pair hexaploid bread wheat genome (2n = 6x = 42 chromosomes), we constructed a bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC)-- based integrated physical map of the largest chromosome, 3B, that alone is 995 megabases.

Instead of seeing a favorable trait in a field and searching for its genes, modern breeders search a wheat genome and attribute a genetic sequence to a trait.

Researchers spent nearly four years trying to identify the location of the Sr35 gene in the wheat genome, which contains nearly two times more genetic information than the human genome.

The gene copies also hide natural variation in the wheat genome that could create opportunities to selectively breed plants with useful traits.

But because of the complexity of the wheat genome, developing that resource was a massive undertaking.

Now an international team has applied this approach to tackle the wheat genome, which is five times the size of the human genome and much more complicated.

The wheat genome «was thought to be intractable,» says Gill.

Nonetheless, the wheat genome has seemed too daunting, and not just because it's 17 gigabases long.

Because barley is a close relative to wheat, the new work could offer useful information leading to the complete sequencing of the wheat genome.

Rice, for example, may have up to 50,000 genes — about the same number of genes as wheat or corn — but its genome is only 1/38 the length of the wheat genome.

This section describes the wheat genome assemblies available, gene models, using EnsemblPlants to access wheat data, accessing wheat expression data, finding variation data and finding the wheat orthologue of genes from other species.

The sequencing of goat grass DNA opens the way for wheat breeders to apply a number of advanced approaches to improve the speed and precision of wheat breeding for important traits that may be found in the goat grass segment of the wheat genome.

«While we and our collaborators continue to work to enhance the resolution of our knowledge of the wheat genome, these results should have an significant impact on breeding efforts and further research studies of the wheat genomes and its those of its wild relatives,» said McCombie, summing up the project's technical and biological impact.

Professor Kulvinder Gill, the Vogel Chair for Wheat Breeding and Genetics, is working to better understand the wheat genome and manipulate it for crop improvement using modern techniques and tools.

Current research projects include sequencing the wheat genome through a combination of Illumina short read sequencing and long sequence reads using the new Pacific Biosciences sequencers.

The wheat genome has been altered in this country to increase the protein content so it can grow heartily.