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GrainGenes: A Database for Triticeae and Avena
GrainGenes is a compilation of molecular and phenotypic information on wheat, barley, rye, triticale, and oats. The project is supported by the USDA-ARS Plant Genome Research Program, and by the community of scientists who are providing the information and the reasons to be interested in it. Featured_Link
Wheat Pedigree and Identified Alleles of Genes OnLine
Wheat Pedigree and Identified Alleles of Genes OnLine
Produced by a collaboration between the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Czech Research Institute of Crop Production, this site contains genealogies and identified alleles of genes of 69,632 wheat accessions according to 2,529 information sources.  
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GrainGenes 2.0 Sneak preview!
A new, relational version of the GrainGenes Database (now called "GrainGenes Classic") is coming soon! It already works and you're welcome to use it and even start telling us about its shortcomings. And it already has many longcomings to recommend it. A description of the database migration from the ACEDB software to MySQL is here.

Report of the wheat CAP planning conference
A conference to plan a Coordinated Agricultural Project proposal on wheat translational genomics was held August 16-17 in Denver CO. Click here for the final report. See also additional information about the project at the MASwheat site.

Barley CAP Conference
"Coordinated Agricultural Project Conference on Barley Translational Genomics"
November 13-14, 2004, Minneapolis MN.
The goal of the meeting will be to define research priorities for barley translational genomics and outline a proposal that will be submitted for a barley CAP grant. Everyone who is interested in barley research is invited to attend. Registration is required; however, there is no registration fee. Deadline for registration is October 21.
Announcement and registration form in .doc format
National Research Initiative: Applied Plant Genomics Coordinated Agricultural Project

EWAC 2005, First Circular
The European Wheat Aneuploid Co-operative will meet in Prague, Czech Republic, 27 June - 1 July 2005. Please indicate your interest in receiving further information by submitting this form.

Physical Mapping of the Barley Genome
This database of Hordeum vulgare cv. Morex BAC contigs, assembled via FPC, currently contains 22,000 clones assembled in 2300 contigs, corresponding to about 1/3 of the barley gene space. Data on thousands of markers (cDNAs, gene fragments and overgo probes) mapped to the BAC clones will be added soon.

Cereal Genomics published
Edited by P K Gupta (CCSU, Meerut, IN) and Rajeev K Varshney (IPK, Gatersleben, DE), this book covers all aspects of structural and functional genomics of cereals. Contents and Contributors.

Wheat Genetic Improvement Network, WGIN
Defra, the UK Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, is supporting a major public-sector pre-breeding program to deliver genetic material to UK wheat breeders.

Report on IGROW discussions, May 2004
Discussions at the ITMI meeting in Minneapolis.
From Rudi Appels and Bikram Gill.

WMC 1 SSRs
All of the data from the first Wheat Microsatellite Consortium is now online. This includes markers wmc1 through wmc588.

Better Barley Faster: the Role of Marker Assisted Selection
A special issue of the Australian Journal of Agricultural Research, containing results from the Australian National Barley Molecular Marker Program. Abstracts and some articles are available online.

Rice chromosomes vs. cereal genes
Physical (BAC/PAC) map of japonica chromosomes, aligned by BLAST with mapped contigs and singletons from the NSF wheat EST project, with contigs and singletons from the Wheat SNP project, and with GenBank protein sequences of wheat, barley, rye, oat, and rice.
Contributed by Jing Yu, DNA LandMarks.

Comparative Map of Wheat and Rice Genomes
Comparison based on thousands of wheat ESTs mapped in Chinese Spring deletion lines and BLASTed against the rice genome sequence. Supplementary detailed data from Sorrells and La Rota, Genome Research 13:1818-1827 (2003).

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