THE TAIR9 GENOME release is now available with 282 new loci, updates to 1254 gene structures and 739 new splice variants.
(Date posted: 3 July 2009)

HAS GENE TARGETING in plants finally arrived? Part 1: Townsend et al. were able to produce herbicide-resistant tobacco plants with high frequency using homologous recombination mediated by engineered zinc-finger nucleases
(Date posted: 8 June 2009)

HAS GENE TARGETING in plants finally arrived? Part 2: A similar method has been used by Shukla et al. to introduce a specific mutation into the IPK1 gene to engineer low-phytate maize plants
(Date posted: 8 June 2009)

THE BETA release of PlantGeneWiki has been announced by the Gramene database team. PlantGeneWiki is a database of plant genes and their annotations, designed to be browsed, searched and edited by the plant research community itself.
(Date posted: 8 May 2009)

A NEW online tool for coexpression analysis of microarray data from Arabidopsis has been launched. CressExpress has a number of features that differentiate it from other co-expression tools.
(Date posted: 7 May 2009)

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