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Phytozome.net expanded
Posted: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 2:39 pm
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An enhanced version of Phytozome.net, a web portal for comparative plant genomics geared to advance biofuel, food, feed, and fiber research, has been released by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI). The 4.0 release of Phytozome now spans fourteen plant genomes, including eight that have been sequenced at the DOE JGI.

Phytozome data are publicly accessible, and its web access "hub" includes tools for visualization of plant genomes and associated annotations, sequence analysis, and bulk, as well as targeted, plant data retrieval. The gene families available in Phytozome, defined at several evolutionarily significant epochs, provide a framework for the transfer of functional information to important biofuel and agricultural crops from model plant systems, as well as allowing users to explore land plant evolution.

The data cover:

* Populus trichocarpa, the black cottonwood tree, the first tree sequenced.

* Sorghum bicolor, a drought-tolerant grass.

* Soybean (Glycine max).

* Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a single-celled green alga, a powerful model system for the study of photosynthesis.

* Brachypodium distachyon, a temperate wild grass and model plant.

* Arabidopsis lyrata, a close relative of the model plant Arabidopis thaliana and a reference genome shedding light on the genetics, physiology, development, and structure of plants in general and how they respond to disease and environmental stress.

* Physcomitrella patens, a moss widely recognized as an experimental organism of choice not only for basic molecular, cytological, and developmental questions in plant biology, but also as a key link in understanding plant genome evolution.

* Selaginella moellendorffii, a spikemoss with a compact genome that is helping to define an ancient core of genes common to all vascular plants.

Phytozome also includes the completed sequences of rice, papaya, grape, Medicago (the genus which includes alfalfa as a member), Arabidopsis thaliana, as well as maize bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) sequences from the Maize Genome Sequencing Project.

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