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	<description>Genetics: Studying the Source Code of Nature</description>
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		<title>Chromosomes and Ploidy at PATSP</title>
		<link>http://www.jamesandthegiantcorn.com/2010/03/11/chromosomes-and-ploidy-at-patsp/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jamesandthegiantcorn.com/2010/03/11/chromosomes-and-ploidy-at-patsp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When plant lovers/growers can explain chromosomes more clearly than some professors I could name, we all win! (This is a compliment to the plant lovers, not a insult to the professors, not most of them anyway.) Click through for a great example.]]></description>
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		<title>Yield of Arabidopsis</title>
		<link>http://www.jamesandthegiantcorn.com/2010/03/10/yield-of-arabidopsis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fun With Numbers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arabidopsis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yield]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yield per acre]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In today's fun-with-numbers post we extrapolate how arabidopsis, a popular model plant species, would stack up as a crop species. ]]></description>
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		<title>Food Nostalgia</title>
		<link>http://www.jamesandthegiantcorn.com/2010/03/10/food-nostalgia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nostalgia for the food of the past isn't something new. Of course the past is a moving target. Links to James McWilliams at the nytimes, and Michael Roberts at Greed, Green, and Grains]]></description>
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		<title>Wow!</title>
		<link>http://www.jamesandthegiantcorn.com/2010/03/09/wow/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jamesandthegiantcorn.com/2010/03/09/wow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Campus Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genomics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maize]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maize genetics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Who could have predicted maize geneticists would be so interested in maize genes? The entry I posted last night on Purple plant1 and Colored aleurone1 easily received more traffic in its first day on the site (it&#8217;s still got a long way to go before it catches long term readership attractors like water chestnuts and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientific Posters</title>
		<link>http://www.jamesandthegiantcorn.com/2010/03/08/scientific-posters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Campus Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[posters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scientific meetings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[synteny]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jamesandthegiantcorn.com/?p=1518</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m involved in the designing of two posters my lab will be taking to the maize meeting in a weeks time. What are scientific posters?
A cross between a very short paper and a very short, on demand, research seminar, a poster is a dozen square feet of scientific data. We grad students cobble together some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two classical maize genes, synteny, and the mystery of the missing gene</title>
		<link>http://www.jamesandthegiantcorn.com/2010/03/08/two-classical-maize-genes-synteny-and-the-mystery-of-the-missing-gene/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jamesandthegiantcorn.com/2010/03/08/two-classical-maize-genes-synteny-and-the-mystery-of-the-missing-gene/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genomics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[c1]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gevo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grasses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maize]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pl1]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[synteny]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[whole genome duplication]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jamesandthegiantcorn.com/?p=1508</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Colored aleurone1 and Purple plant1 are both genes with long histories in maize research and are involved in the regulation of anthocyanin biosynthesis. The mutant version of purple plant1 does exactly what it sounds like. (In the proper genetic background) it has plants producing anthocyanin (a purple plant pigment) everywhere, resulting in purple plants. The mutant form of colored aleurone1 was identified from a mutant that changed the color of individual corn kernels. The two genes are also duplicates (homeologs) resulting from the maize whole genome duplication. More details, pictures of the mutant plants, a quick and interesting syntenic analysis and the mystery of the missing gene, in the full post.]]></description>
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		<title>The Hair Shirt Fallacy</title>
		<link>http://www.jamesandthegiantcorn.com/2010/03/07/the-hair-shirt-fallacy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jamesandthegiantcorn.com/2010/03/07/the-hair-shirt-fallacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just because something is unpleasant, doesn't make it good for you. Just because something is comfortable, doesn't make it bad for you. ]]></description>
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		<title>Oliva Judson&#8217;s Salute to Grasses</title>
		<link>http://www.jamesandthegiantcorn.com/2010/03/03/1501/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jamesandthegiantcorn.com/2010/03/03/1501/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chicken]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grasses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[olivia judson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teeth]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jamesandthegiantcorn.com/?p=1501</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Talking up Olivia Judson (an English evolutionary biologist who has the trick of getting the general public excited about biology), her post on why grasses are so important in particular, and, for some reason bird's teeth (they wanted to slip in somewhere).]]></description>
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		<title>The Most Studied Genes of Maize (and why we love kernel phenotypes)</title>
		<link>http://www.jamesandthegiantcorn.com/2010/03/02/the-most-studied-genes-of-maize-and-why-we-love-kernel-phenotypes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jamesandthegiantcorn.com/2010/03/02/the-most-studied-genes-of-maize-and-why-we-love-kernel-phenotypes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plant breeding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kernels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maize]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mutants]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jamesandthegiantcorn.com/?p=1485</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Of the fifteen most studied genes in maize (cool graphical table included), thirteen can have kernel phenotypes when mutated. Why? Because of what a geneticist can tell from looking at a single ear of corn that shows such a mutant phenotype (details inside).]]></description>
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		<title>Corn Smut</title>
		<link>http://www.jamesandthegiantcorn.com/2010/02/27/corn-smut/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jamesandthegiantcorn.com/2010/02/27/corn-smut/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Plants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corn smut]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fungus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[huitlacoche]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jamesandthegiantcorn.com/?p=1476</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[And no that doesn&#8217;t mean corn pornography*. Corn smut, or Ustilago maydis, is a fungus that infects corn plants. It&#8217;s an old acquantance from my days working in the field. We always used to tell the new hires that corn smut was a rare delicacy in some countries (as we&#8217;d been told ourselves), but this [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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