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Gramene: a bird's eye view of cereal genomes
Department of Plant Breeding 240 Emerson Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853, USA 1Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 1 Bungtown Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA 2Institute for Genomic Diversity, Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853, USA 3USDA-ARS NAA Plant, Soil & Nutrition Laboratory Research Unit, Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +1 607 255 0420; Fax: +1 607 255 6683; Email: SRM4{at}cornell.edu
Received September 14, 2005. Revised October 31, 2005. Accepted October 31, 2005.
Rice, maize, sorghum, wheat, barley and the other major crop grasses from the family Poaceae (Gramineae) are mankind's most important source of calories and contribute tens of billions of dollars annually to the world economy (FAO 1999, http://www.fao.org; USDA 1997, http://www.usda.gov). Continued improvement of Poaceae crops is necessary in order to continue to feed an ever-growing world population. However, of the major crop grasses, only rice (Oryza sativa), with a compact genome of
400 Mbp, has been sequenced and annotated. The Gramene database (http://www.gramene.org) takes advantage of the known genetic colinearity (synteny) between rice and the major crop plant genomes to provide maize, sorghum, millet, wheat, oat and barley researchers with the benefits of an annotated genome years before their own species are sequenced. Gramene is a one stop portal for finding curated literature, genetic and genomic datasets related to maps, markers, genes, genomes and quantitative trait loci. The addition of several new tools to Gramene has greatly facilitated the potential for comparative analysis among the grasses and contributes to our understanding of the anatomy, development, environmental responses and the factors influencing agronomic performance of cereal crops. Since the last publication on Gramene database by D. H. Ware, P. Jaiswal, J. Ni, I. V. Yap, X. Pan, K. Y. Clark, L. Teytelman, S. C. Schmidt, W. Zhao, K. Chang et al. [(2002), Plant Physiol., 130, 16061613], the database has undergone extensive changes that are described in this publication.
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