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Food Crops: Cereals, Grains, and Grasses

Featured Articles:

Towards a Better Bowl of Rice: Assigning Function to Tens of Thousands of Rice Genes.
Jung, K-H., G. An, and P.C. Ronald.
Nature Reviews Genetics 9(2):91-101, February 2008.

The Art and Design of Genetic Screens: Maize
Candela, H. and S. Hake
Nature Reviews Genetics 9(3):192-203, March 2008

 

BarleyBase-A community resource for cereal microarrays
http://www.plexdb.org/plex.php?database=Barley
BarleyBase is a public repository for plant microarray data. In addition to experiment and expression data, links to PlantGDB and Gramene allow users to perform gene predictions or cross-species comparisons at the genome level. BarleyBase is expanding to become PLEXdb, the comprehensive Plant Expression Database.

CR-EST: Crop Expressed Sequence Tag Database (IPK-- Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research)
http://pgrc.ipk-gatersleben.de/cr-est/index.php
The site provides access to sequence, classification, and taxonomic data for several plant species (mostly barley, but also it includes some data for wheat, pea, potato, and tobacco). EST sequences are clustered and analyzed against model plant genes and available data includes consensus sequence, functional annotations, and expression data. Entries also include cross-links to relevant external web sites.

GrainGenes: A database for Triticaceae and Avena
http://rye.pw.usda.gov/cmap/
This database provides access to genetic and genomic data for Triticaceae and Avena species: wheat, barley, rye, oat, and their wild relatives. Curated data is provided for genetic and physical maps, genes, and QTL information. Other types of data include sequences (EST, genomic, and contiq assemblies), gene products, taxonomies, and literature citations. GrainGenes also includes links to corresponding records in other resources (GenBank, Unigene, BarleyBase, and others).

Gramene: A Resource for Comparative Grass Genomics (Cold Spring Harbor and Cornell University)
http://www.gramene.org/
Gramene is a curated database containing the complete genome sequences for Arabidopsis, maize, and rice. The protein section of the database provides information on SwissProt-TrEMBL protein entries from family Poaceae (Grasses). Genetic and physical maps, and a comparative map viewer, are available for rice, maize, wheat, barley, oats, sorghum, and other grasses. Other information includes markers, a QTL database, SNPs, pathway information, and literature citations.

HarvEST (University of California, Riverside)
http://harvest.ucr.edu/
HarvEST is a tool for viewing ESTs with support for identifying gene function, functional annotation, mapping, comparative genomics, and microarray design. EST sequences in HarvEST have been quality trimmed, cleaned, and assembled into unigenes. Putative gene function is based on BLASTX hits from the GenBank translated nr database, and from the annotated rice and Arabidopsis genomes. The database also contains links to other sequence databases and facilitates connection to NCBI for BLAST searches of the public dbEST database. Both HarvEST wheat and barley include viewing functions for the associated Affymetrix GeneChip®. Species included in HarvEST include wheat, barley, citrus, soy, cowpea, and coffee.

OryzaBase
http://www.shigen.nig.ac.jp/rice/oryzabase/top/top.jsp
The OryzaBase is intended to be a comprehensive rice science database covering knowledge ranging from classical rice genetics to genomic analyses. OryzaBase has several components, including genetic stock information, a gene dictionary, and chromosome maps. The database contains over 13,000 strain entries, almost 5,000 marker entries, over 2000 trait genes, and almost 3,000 references. The current focus of OryzaBase is to provide cross-references to major DNA sequence databases, literature citations, and other plant databases.

MaizeGDB—Maize Genetics and Genomics Database
http://www.maizegdb.org/
MaizeGDB is a community resource for biological information about Zea mays ssp. mays. The site provides access to genetic, genomic, sequence, gene product, functional characterization, literature reference, and person/organization contact information. The site also includes maps, metabolic pathways, and polymorphisms.

Panzea
http://www.panzea.org
Panzea provides access to data and tools for the analysis of molecular and functional diversity in maize. The database contains genotype, phenotype, and polymorphism data from the Maize Diversity Program. Panzea also includes a bibliography on maize evolution and diversity; with links to text when available.

TIGR Rice Genome Annotation
http://www.tigr.org/tdb/e2k1/osa1/
The TIGR Rice Genome Annotation Database provides sequence and annotation data for the 12 rice chromosomes. The Genome Browser provides an integrated display of annotation data.

Whole Rice Genome Automated Annotation Database
http://www.tigr.org/tdb/e2k1/osa1/irgsp.shtml
This database contains rice sequences processed through an automated annotation pipeline. Sequences can be searched by gene name, clone name, and locus identifier. In addition, the table of clones is sorted by chromosome and by map position on the chromosome to facilitate browsing. A domain search locates sequences containing Pfam domains and Interpro database hits.

   
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