National Plant Genome Initiative, Progress Report * January 2005

Introduction

Dear Colleague Letter

Interagency Working Group on Plant Genomes
* Committee on Science
* National Science and Technology Council

Current Status of Plant Genomes Sequences

Highlights

Plans for the Next Year

URLs for Major Resources

About the National Science and Technology Council

Image Credits

Acknowledgement

 

Current Status of Plant Genomes Sequences

Plant Species Genome Size Products
Public Access to sequence
Project Status PIs, Institutions, Countries
Arabidopsis thaliana 130Mb Finished BAC-by-BAC whole genome sequence. Published in Nature (2000) http://www.nature.com/nature/links/
001214/001214-1.html
Completed Arabidopsis Genome Initiative
Rice (Oryza sativa) 430Mb Finished BAC-by-BAC whole genome sequence. Published in Nature (2005) http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v436/
n7052/abs/nature03895.html
Completed International Rice Genome Sequencing Project
Poplar (Populus trichocarpa) 480Mb 7.5x coverage whole genome shotgun sequence in GenBank http://genome.jgi-psf.org/Poptr1/
Poptr1.home.html
In finishing Joint Genome Institute
Barrel Medic (Medicago truncatula) 550Mb Gene-rich BAC sequence in GenBank http://www.medicago.org/,
http://medicago.toulouse.inra.fr/
In progress Medicago Genome Sequencing Project
Sorghum 736Mb Whole genome shotgun sequence http://www.jgi.doe.gov/sequencing/why/
CSP2006/sorghum.html
In progress Joint Genome Initiative
Maize 2,500Mb

BAC and whole genome shotgun sequences will be deposited in GenBank

3 year projects
Started in Nov. 2005
Washington University, St. Louis; Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; University of Arizona; Iowa State University; Joint Genome Institute; Stanford University

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