Volker Brendel, professor of bioinformatics at Iowa State, spoke at the Maize Genetics Conference about the need for a better system of community annotation of the maize genome. The genome of the popular maize inbred line B73 is sequenced, but we don’t actually know what a lot of the code stands for. It’s going to [...]
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Annotating the maize genome
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MGC
The 51st Maize Genetics Conference is just as overwhelming as I remembered from the the 49th (50 was in Washington DC and was too expensive for me to go). We have 480+ maize geneticists all in one resort in St. Charles, IL, presenting 244 posters, 4 plenary talks, 35 short talks, and innumerable conversations about [...]
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NCCC-167 continued
The NCCC-167 meeting is over, and I’m very glad to have had the opportunity to attend. The acronym stands for North Central Communications Committee, and 167 is the USDA-ARS project number. It turns out that there are hundreds of projects, some of which are designated for conferences and communications, such as this one. Apparently this [...]
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Biomass quality and quantity
Shawn Kaeppler is a researcher at the Great Lakes Bioenergy Center, a DOE Bioenergy Research Center, and the University of Wisconsin Department of Agronomy. Specific to this center is a lot of work on sustainability, including work on energy balance. You may be surprised, then, to hear that Shawn’s group is working on corn [...]
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NCCC-167
Today was the first day of the North Central Regional Corn Breeding Research meeting. This is abbreviated NCCC-167. I don’t know where the R went or where the third C came from and don’t know what 167 stands for, so finding out will be my mission for tomorrow.
I hope to post details of the talks, [...]
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