GrainGenes 2.0

9th European Fusarium Seminar

Mon, 21 Mar 2006 11:09:21 PST

19-22 September 2006
Wageningen, The Netherlands

Since 1988, the European Fusarium Seminar (EFS) is the European platform to communicate progress and to exchange information on Fusarium research. The first EFS was in Poland with 30 participants, and since then it was organised every two years in a different European country. The EFS program gradually expanded over time and the number of participants increased to more than 200. The last meeting was organised in conjunction with the Second International Symposium on Fusarium Head Scab in Orlando, Florida in December 2004 that registered over 340 participants....

Newest Employment Opportunities

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 09:00:21 PST

03/20/06 Plant Geneticist, USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Pullman, WA

03/20/06 Senior Scientist, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Nairobi, Kenya

03/20/06 Regional Representantive Asia, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), New Delhi, India

Rust Diseases in Triticeae and Oat

Mon, 15 Mar 2006 09:02:21 PST

GrainGenes introduces a new page dedicated to rust diseases. Find the latest information, news, and links to other useful sites.

There are also links to query results from the GrainGenes 2.0 database.

Crown Rust:

Collections of genetics stocks

Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:01:21 PST

USDA-ARS Cereal Crops Research Unit, Fargo, ND Durum wheat Langdon-derived substitution lines, recombinant inbred substitution lines, synthetic hexaploids, ...

Wheat Genetics Resource Center, Kansas State University Bread wheat addition lines, substitution lines, aneuploids, deletion lines, translocations, synthetic hexaploids, ...

USDA-ARS National Small Grains Germplasm Research Facility Barley and wheat aneuploids

Wheat Precise Genetic Stocks at JIC Wheat aneuploids, alien introductions, and intervarietal substitutions

National BioResource Project, Japan Wheat aneuploids and deletion lines, barley chromosome addition lines of wheat, ...

Cereal Genebank, Martonvsr, Hungary Wheat monosomics, substitutions, ...

2006 National Fusarium Head Blight (NFHB) Forum

Mon, 13 Mar 2006 08:47:21 PST

December 10-12, 2006
Sheraton Imperial Hotel & Convention Center
Raleigh, North Carolina

In December 2006, the USWBSI will hold its annual conference, the 2006 National Fusarium Head Blight Forum. It will be held at the Sheraton Imperial Hotel & Convention Center located in Research Trianle Park near Raleigh, North Carolina. Please check back periodically for updated information.

Ug99, new virulent race of stem rust from East Africa

Thu, 9 Mar 2006 09:39:21 PST

"Wheat Warning -- New Rust Could Spread Like Wildfire", Science News Online, 24 Sep 05

"Resistance to Eastern African Stem Rust Isolates with Broad Virulence in US and CIMMYT Wheat", USDA Cereal Disease Laboratory, 1 Jun 05

"Sounding the Alarm on Global Stem Rust", CIMMYT, 29 May 05 (pdf, 200 KB)

CIMMYT International FHB Workshop

Thu, 9 Mar 2006 10:39:21 PST

March 14 - 17, 2006, CIMMYT International FHB Workshop
El Batan, Mexico

New Maps Added - Barley, OWB, 2005

Thu, 10 Mar 2006 10:39:21 PST

The GrainGenes curators have uploaded an update of the Oregon Wolfe Barley maps including Ac/Ds tranposition sites and SCRI snps, indels and ssrs.

View all of the maps in the CMap comparison map viewer or view the maps individually in CMap.