Bamboo represents the only major lineage of grasses that is native to forests and is one of
the most important non-timber forest products in the world. However, no species in the …

Sorghum, an African grass related to sugar cane and maize, is grown for food, feed, fibre
and fuel. We present an initial analysis of the∼ 730-megabase Sorghum bicolor (L.) …

Cucumber is an economically important crop as well as a model system for sex
determination studies and plant vascular biology. Here we report the draft genome …

Members of the glutamine synthetase (GS) gene family have now been characterized in
many crop species such as wheat, rice, and maize. Studies have shown that cytosolic GS …

The cultivation of rice in Africa dates back more than 3,000 years. Interestingly, African rice is
not of the same origin as Asian rice (Oryza sativa L.) but rather is an entirely different species …

Motivation: Redundant protein sequences in biological databases hinder sequence
similarity searches and make interpretation of search results difficult. Clustering of protein …

Abstract In The Institute for Genomic Research Rice Genome Annotation project (), we have
continued to update the rice genome sequence with new data and improve the quality of the …

Background Although it is agreed that a major polyploidy event, gamma, occurred within the
eudicots, the phylogenetic placement of the event remains unclear. Results To determine …

Castor bean (Ricinus communis) is an oilseed crop that belongs to the spurge
(Euphorbiaceae) family, which comprises∼ 6,300 species that include cassava (Manihot …

Background Medium-to large-scale expression profiling using quantitative polymerase chain
reaction (qPCR) assays are becoming increasingly important in genomics research. A major …