Tension wood study helps tailors bioenergy feedstock
Researchers focus on tension wood in linking phenotypic and genotypic data to the lignocellulosic challenges presented in converting poplar biomass to sugars for biofuels production. [Read More]
Content Tagged "Poplar"
Poplar rust fungal genome project in Western Farm Press
The sequencing of the genetic codes of wheat stem rust pathogen (Puccinia graminis) and poplar leaf rust pathogen (Melampsora larici-populina) is expected to help researchers develop control strategies to address worldwide threats to wheat fields and tree plantations. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was a six-year collaborative effort of… [Read More]
Poplar leaf rust fungal genome project on KRVN
Wheat stem rust causes major epidemics of both barley and wheat worldwide. A strain known as Ug99 has spread across Africa and into Central Asia, and has been able to overcome most of the stem-rust-resistant wheat varieties developed over the past 50 years. Poplar leaf rust can cause significant losses in poplar tree plantations. Poplar… [Read More]
Poplar leaf rust fungal genome project on Hoosier Farmers
Poplar leaf rust can cause significant losses in poplar tree plantations. Poplar is an important crop for the wood industry and is becoming increasingly important to the biofuel industry in the United States and Europe because of its rapid and significant production of biomass. Read more on Hoosier Farmers [Read More]
Poplar rust fungus in comparative genomics study
Rust plant pathogens make up a large fungal group which cannot survive on their own so they use crops as hosts, leading to reduced yields and potentially hindering efforts to grow biomass for fuel. To learn more about these, a 2006 Community Sequencing Program project generated the 101-million base pair genome of the poplar leaf… [Read More]
Poplar leaf rust genome project in GenomeWeb Daily News
By comparing the genomes to one another and to some previously sequenced fungal pathogens and symbionts, the researchers identified features in the rust fungi genomes that seem to coincide with their pathogenic lifestyles. For instance, they tracked down a slew of genes coding for so-called effectors — small, secreted proteins that help the fungi thwart… [Read More]
Poplar leaf rust genome project on SeedQuest
Sequenced at the DOE JGI using the Sanger platform under the 2006 Community Sequencing Program, the 101-million base pair genome of Melampsora larici-populina, the first tree pathogen sequenced, was made publicly available in 2008. Poplar leaf rust outbreaks weaken poplar trees, a candidate bioenergy feedstock whose genome sequence was published by the DOE JGI in… [Read More]
Formidable Fungal Force Counters Biofuel Plant Pathogens
Researchers compared rust fungi genomes to identify how these pathogens can invade their plant hosts and to control the damage they can cause. [Read More]
Eisen blogs Twitter wrap-up of the DOE JGI User Meeting
Off to another meeting so don’t have time to write up details of the JGI User Meeting that just ended. But I am posting my tweets and some related tweets here. Also, apparently videos of the talks will be available soon. Will try to clean up the style of the posts ASAP but on the… [Read More]
Poplar bacteria project on EurekAlert
In the current study — through genome sequencing performed at DOE’s Joint Genome Institute, manual genome annotation in collaboration with Brookhaven biologist Sebastien Monchy, and metabolic analyses performed at the University of South Carolina in collaboration with Brookhaven plant scientist Lee Newman — the scientists identified an extended set of genes that help Enterobacter (sp…. [Read More]