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Plant Methods News for the last 365 days

GLYCOGEN is often used to aid DNA precipitation, but commercial supplies are prone to being contaminated with nucleic acids. Bartram et al. show that linear polyacrylamide can be used as an alternative co-precipitant.
(Date posted: 10 February 2010)

1001 GENOMES PROJECT: the Weigel laboratory has just released the genome sequences of the first 80 diverse Arabidopsis thaliana accessions and seeds of each accession have been submitted to the stock centres.
(Date posted: 5 February 2010)

RICE GENE NOMENCLATURE: The Committee on Gene Symbolization, Nomenclature and Linkage (CGSNL) of the Rice Genetics Cooperative has revised the gene nomenclature system for rice
(Date posted: 21 January 2010)

FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS: The Bio-Array Resource at the Univeristy of Toronto has announced a series of improvements to its Arabidopsis functional genomics tools, including upgrades to the Classification SuperViewer and DataMetaFormatter software.
(Date posted: 19 January 2010)

A LARGE DATABASE of Arabidopsis phenotypic data has just become available. The data come from several thousand T-DNA insertion mutants, mostly in nuclear genes known or predicted to encode chloroplast targeted proteins.
(Date posted: 4 January 2010)

Plant Methods has been accepted for inclusion by AGRICOLA, an indexing service from the United States Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Library. Content will appear from the start of 2010.
(Date posted: 23 October 2009)

A NEW TECHNIQUE called De-TILLING promises to make it easier to make gene knockouts in species that are not easily transformed. The technique uses fast neutron bombardment combined with PCR to efficiently screen large numbers of M2 plants.
(Date posted: 24 September 2009)

A NEW SINGLE-STEP METHOD for mutation identification in Arabidopsis (and potentially other species) is based on a combination of bulk-segregant analysis, short-read sequencing and a new software package, SHOREmap.
(Date posted: 14 August 2009)

PLANT METHODS has a new unofficial impact factor of 2.41, which is a significant increase from last year. Our first official ISI Impact Factor is due next year.
(Date posted: 7 August 2009)

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)

A NEW RELEASE of the Plant Ontology Database has been announced. This includes 26625 gene annotations from TAIR, Gramene, SGN and MaizeGDB, as well as 8558 QTL annotations from Gramene and 9832 germplasm associations from SGN, MaizeGDB and NASC.
(Date posted: 20 April 2009)

A NOVEL enzymatic method has been described for assembling DNA molecules up to several hundred kilobases in length. This is likely to be a useful tool in various genetic engineering applications.
(Date posted: 18 April 2009)


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