November 2017: Barley Genetics Newsletter v46 (2016) is available at GrainGenes

Barley Genetics Newsletter v46 (2016) is available at GrainGenes as a pdf document. Please follow the following links for all the available Barley Genetics Newsletter issues: /ggpages/bgn/. Thanks to Phil Bregitzer and Udda Lundqvist for their hard work and dedication.

August 2017: New genome browsers at GrainGenes

We created a page to reach genome browsers available at GrainGenes. The genomes uploaded to the genome browsers include Morex (barley), Zavitan (wheat), and Lo7 (rye), as well a wheat pangenome.

The GrainGenes genome browsers will help evolve GrainGenes into a repository with a genome-centric focus.

You can reach the page here: /GG3/genome_browser

July 2017: Stripe Rust Genes and QTL

A summary map of known stripe rust genes and QTL from the Maccaferri et al. (2015) genome-wide association study of stripe rust resistance in a diverse collection of hexaploid wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is now available in the GrainGenes CMap viewer.

June 2017: Wheat Landrace Consensus Map

The Wheat Landrace Consensus Map from the 2017 study by Wingen et al. has been added to GrainGenes. The landrace consensus map was constructed from a NAM panel of crosses between a reference variety, the spring bread wheat cultivar 'Paragon' , and 60 bread wheat landraces or cultivars. Single seed descendants from a landrace accession from the A.E. Watkins collection (Wingen et al.

May 2017: Wild Emmer Wheat (genotype Zavitan) assembly and annotations are available to BLAST at GrainGenes

In collaboration with the International Wild Emmer Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium, GrainGenes is providing pre-publication BLAST service for the Wild Emmer Genome Assembly (Zavitan WEWSeq v.1.0).

For further information, please go to: /GG3/wildemmer
For our BLAST service, please go to: /GG3/wildemmer_blast

May 2017: Tetraploid Wheat Consensus Map

The consensus map for tetraploid wheat (Triticum turgidum) from the Maccaferri et al. 2015 study has been added to GrainGenes and is available here.

March 2017: Barley 9K iSelect SNP Data

Mapping, marker, and sequence data from the Barley 9K iSelect SNP Chip is now available in GrainGenes. The array is from the Comadran et al. 2012 study. It contains 7,842 SNPs in total, including a combination of 2,832 existing barley OPA (POPA) SNPs and 5,010 new SNPs found through next-generation sequencing. In all, 3,968 of the SNP markers were genetically mapped.

March 2017: Hexaploid Oat Consensus Map

The consensus map for hexaploid oat (Avena sativa L.) from Chaffin et al. 2016 has been added to GrainGenes.

February 2017: Seed Dormancy Data from Chao et al. 2015

QTL and phenotypic data from the Chao et al. 2015 study of pre-harvest sprouting in durum wheat are now available at GrainGenes. Chao et al. developed a population from a cross between Langdon and a deletion line, LDN(521-2B), and used it to identify two QTLs on chromosome 2B that are associated with seed dormancy.

February 2017: A new Tutorials page

GrainGenes is preparing video tutorials to train our users how to best use GrainGenes' data and tools. The tutorial link is in the "Community Services" section on our front page. Here is the direct link to the Tutorials page: /GG3/tutorials.

February 2017: 2016 Uniform Regional Hard Red Spring Wheat Nursery

The 2016 Uniform Regional Hard Red Spring Wheat Nursery data has been added. Please follow the link provided below:

January 2017: MAS Wheat Data Added

Information on markers for disease resistance, agronomic, and processing quality traits from the UC Davis MAS Wheat website (http://maswheat.ucdavis.edu) has been added to the GrainGenes database. This data includes genes, loci, QTLs, markers and PCR probes. Several new genetic maps of these markers are viewable in our CMap map viewer. This data is helpful to wheat researchers and breeders who wish to use marker-assisted selection for these traits.

January 2017: NSGC Durum Wheat Stem Rust genotype and phenotype data are available

Phenotype and mapping data from a genome-wide association study of stem rust resistance in durum wheat are available in the GrainGenes database prior to publication. A panel of 429 lines from the National Small Grains Collection were used in the study to evaluate the genetic diversity of durum wheat resistance to a variety of stem rust races. Several quantitative trait loci for seedling stage and adult plant resistance to a collection of stem rust races were identified. A number of the QTL are potentially novel genes. The paper by Shiaoman Chao, Matthew N.

November 2016: A new twitter feed section and a Facebook page

GrainGenes front page has now a new twitter feed section coming from @graingenes (https://twitter.com/graingenes). We also created a new Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/graingenes/). Both of which, we hope, will allow us to connect directly with our users and share items that will be of interest for small grains researchers.

We appreciate if you please like & follow us.

Thank you!
The GrainGenes team

October 2016: IBGS 2016 abstracts are available on Barley Boulevard

The abstracts for the International Barley Genetics Symposium 2016 are available as a pdf file at GrainGenes on the Barley Boulevard page (under Species Portal).

September 2016: Barley Genetics Newsletter v45 is available under "Species Portal"

Barley Genetics Newsletter v45 is available under "Species Portal. You can also reach it using this link

September 2016: Annual Wheat Newsletter Volume 42 is available. Please follow the link under the "Species Portals" section.

September 2016: You can now contact us using the "Feedback" button located on the top right corner.

As the GrainGenes team, we'd like to make sure that GrainGenes remains useful to small grains researchers. Let us know how we can improve GrainGenes to help your research needs. Contact us when you see a broken link; you want your data displayed at GrainGenes; or you'd like to see some new features on our site.

We appreciate your input!

2015 Uniform Regional Wheat Nurseries.

The 2015 Hard Red Spring Wheat Uniform Nursery Report is now available in the Germplasm resource.
Contributed by: Zack Blankenheim, USDA-ARS-MWA, St. Paul, MN.

Also included are:
The 2015 Hard Red Spring Wheat Uniform Nursery for the African Stem Rust Nursery
Contributed by:David Garvin, USDA-ARS, St. Paul, MN.

Just follow the link below:

Aegilops tauschii D genome map (2013).

Aegilops tauschii, bread wheat D genome progenitor, maps 7185 markers and links to larger contigs.

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