Comments on: Transposons, Browsers, and Annotation, oh my!

By: Frank N. Foode at Maize Genetics

Frank N. Foode at Maize Genetics — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:29:01 +0000

[...] flight was delayed, so I missed the first part of the conference. Luckily someone filled me in on what happened. Apparently I’m 1.4 percent Helitron! Good [...]

By: Maize genetics

Maize genetics — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:47:54 +0000

[...] add to Karl’s excellent coverage of the Maize Genetics Meeting, I’m writing some summaries of selected talks over at Genetic [...]

By: Anastasia Bodnar

Anastasia Bodnar — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:47:32 +0000

I’ve found the Arabidopsis site http://www.arabidopsis.org/servlets/Search?action=new_search&type=germplasm where you can find (and order) mutants for a particular trait. There’s gotta be something similar for maize!

By: Karl Haro von Mogel

Karl Haro von Mogel — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:12:10 +0000

There’s a lot of stuff on David’s site that needs cataloging – which we can do bit by bit, he’s got no problem with it.

I’m not sure about places that have records of maize TDNA libraries. As for arabidopsis, you could try here: http://signal.salk.edu/tabout.html I think they plan to complete it by 2010, that’s one year away… maybe there’s something useful there?

By: Anastasia Bodnar

Anastasia Bodnar — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:36:21 +0000

What a great summary – I think you capture some of the craziness and wonder that comes from having that many maize geneticists all in one place. A few random thoughts:

Heliotrons are just so cool, jumping around, moving bits of genes to new places in the genome. I really like David’s “natural GMO” series. I wonder if we could get a linked summary of them to make it easy for people to find the articles?

I wish MaizeGDB would switch to a Wiki or some other format. I find it very difficult to search for things on their site, although you can tell they are trying. Most importantly, we need to get more info in one place.

For example, I know there exist many sets of mutant maize lines that are known to have, say tDNA insertions in iron transport and storage related genes (which is what I want) but I don’t have any idea where to start looking. It should be at MaizeGDB! You wouldn’t happen to know where I can find them, or similar lines for Arabidopsis, would you?