A consortium of researchers from Australia’s The University of Queensland and the Queensland Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF Qld) and China’s Beijing Genomics Institute has discovered that sorghum, a drought-tolerant African crop, has more genetic variation than previously reported. Through whole-genome sequencing, the team obtained the genomic data of 44 sorghum lines to […]

The outcomes of a joint Vietnam-UK research project on sequencing the genomes of a number of Vietnamese indigenous rice varieties were made public at a workshop in Hanoi on August 28. The project, running between January 2011 and June 2013, is within the international cooperation framework between Vietnam’s Ministry of Science and Technology and the […]

Researchers from the United States, Europe, and Japan have produced the first comparison of DNA sequences between the domestic tomato and its wild cousins. They also identified which genes are expressed in the present-day tomato. According to the lead author of the study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the […]

In a major step towards understanding gene switching, a genomic map was produced by an international consortium led by scientists from McGill University and University of Toronto. The map is the first of its kind in plants, and will help scientists identify specific regulatory regions in the genomes of plants, such as canola, a major […]