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flower and plant genome questions

Jon Monroe monroejd at jmu.edu
Thu Apr 30 13:05:08 EST 1998


Jon Greenberg asked-

>For a high school biology text, can anyone please tell me...
>
>2) Which plant gemome(s) are sequenced and available on-line.My
>recollection was that either a Marchantia species (which one?) or
>Arabidopsis thaliana had been completely sequenced.

Jon;

No plant nuclear genome has been completely sequenced yet although numerous
chloroplast genomes (which are MUCH smaller) are done including that of
Marchantia.

The arabidopsis genome initiative (AGI) is well underway and as of the
latest update, 27 megabases of the anticipated ~100 megabases of
arabidopsis nuclear genome are sequenced.  Of that, almost 20 mb are fully
annotated.  To see a graphic on the status of the project link to:
http://genome-www3.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/Webdriver?MIval=atdb_agi_total

Also check out these sites (certainly not a complete list!):

A collection of websites on bioinformatics
http://dna.Stanford.EDU/motif/

USDA's Databases at the National Agricultural Library
http://probe.nalusda.gov:8300/

The Institute for Genomic Resources (TIGR) database
http://www.tigr.org/tdb/tdb.html


Hope this helps.

Jon Monroe

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