Check out Anastasia’s write up here, check it out! Especially if you’d like a better explanation of the synthetic micro-RNA technique used to knock down the tomato genes targeted in the paper.
My own write up from yesterday also just became my first submission to Research Blogging. My approval from the site just came through this afternoon [...]
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Biofortified Also Covers Indian Tomatoes
It’s Been Two Years!
…since my first entry. I wish I could call it a lengthy piece of insightful writing, but sadly, it is not.
With two years of data I can say that there’s a hint of an annual pattern to my writting with greatest number of entries being written in the final months of the calandar year and [...]
No strawberry genome ::sniff::
From the article on the genome at scienceblog.com:
Contrary to the information posted in the article on January 11, 2010, the strawberry genome sequence has not been completed or released.
The news release above was a premature and highly inaccurate dissemination from the USDA. The strawberry genome has not been published, it has not been released, and [...]
Ideas on why plant genomes rule?
I’m considering starting a series on several ways that plant genomes can take more punishment than mammalian genomes and survive. Right now I can think of:
-Methylation knockouts
-Telomerase knockouts (for a few generations) and tissue culture for decades
-Whole genome duplications/and aneuploidy
Can you think of any other examples of things plant genomes can survive better than animal [...]
Year End Wrap Up
Hope New Years Eve (or Happy New Year if you live in the eastern hemisphere)! I’ve linked to and summarized five posts from the past year here at the site: TAMBI-TAM, Could we feed ourselves with Tomatoes?, Phylogeny of the Pineapple, a further explanation of awesomeness, Why is Wheat Is Losing Out in the Era of Modern Crop Breeding, and Figure from my Research Proposal. Come on inside to read more.
Lack of Daily Updates
Just a quick update. I’ve been trying to keep a couple too many balls in the air, with the result that I have, unambigiously, ended my stretch of daily updates (and basically dropped off the face of the internet).
Anyway, to any loyal readers, I intend to return to daily updates either after Christmas or at [...]
Happy Thanksgiving!
In recognitions of the huge feasts many of us are or soon will be sitting down to, let us take a moment to think about the very fact that vast range of different foods human beings can eat might be the very reason we out competed other hominids (specifically neaderthals) with more specialized diets. Our [...]
Traveling
So I’m about to depart on what promises to be a 14 plus hour journey back to the land of corn (maize), porkburgers, and possibly snow. This couldn’t be coming at a worse time in the submission process for the paper my lab is trying to get out the door. Never before have I so [...]
Summary of the Coverage of the Maize Genome here at J+TGC
Summarizing a couple of Virginia Walbot’s ten reasons you should care about the maize genome
Hear one of the lead authors of the maize genome paper explain how and why it was done in under four minutes.
Reviewing the quality of the genome sequence itself.
We can already see research made possible by the maize genome.
How maize fits [...]