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A University of Texas at Austin scientist, working with an international research team, has developed the most precise sequence map yet of U.S. cotton and will soon create an even more detailed map for navigating the complex cotton genome. Full Story. The research in the USA team is supported by NSF and Cotton Incorporated.

April 11, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire: A consortium led by Z. Jeffrey Chen of The University of Texas at Austin and Jane Grimwood and Jeremy Schmutz of the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology has made publicly available a significantly improved high-quality genome sequence of Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum). This sequence of the species making up greater than 90% of the world’s spinnable cotton fiber builds upon previous genome sequences published in the past five years. The data is downloadable at DOE JGI Phytozome Gossypium hirsutum v1.1. 

AUSTIN, Texas, May 31, 2017 — With prices down and weather patterns unpredictable, these are tough times for America’s cotton farmers, but new research led by Z. Jeffrey Chen at The University of Texas at Austin might offer a break for the industry. He and a team have taken the first step toward a new way of breeding heartier, more productive cotton through a process called epigenetic modification.

The first project planning meeting on Cotton Fiber Genomics was held at TAMU.

A University of Texas at Austin scientist, working with an international research team, has developed the most precise sequence map yet of U.S. cotton and will soon create an even more detailed map for navigating the complex cotton genome. Full Story. The research in the USA team is supported by NSFand Cotton Incorporated.

Total RNAs were purified from immature ovules collected at -3, 0, and +3 days post anthesis (DPA). A full-length cDNA library is under construction.

Announcement of the new projects funded by the NSF Plant Genome Research Program.

J. Chen and B. Triplett attend the NSF New Awardee’s Meeting in Washington, D.C.

Deadline for submitting FY2005 grant proposals to Plant Genome Research Program.

Sreenath Palle, graduate research assistant, will attend Pathways to the Doctorate programmatic conference in southern Texas. The Texas A&M University System developed the program to advance higher education opportunities, and, perhaps even more important, awareness of those opportunities in all regions of the state. The conferences rotate among System institutions, and the Pathways program thereby takes advantage of its nine universities (>100K students) to find and foster pursuit of doctorate degrees by talented individuals from most of the state, including large regions where the challenges and opportunities socio-economic development at greatest. Involvement of the Fiber Genomics with the Pathways program is particularly good fit, as the crop is grown throughout many regions of the state, so the subject matter will be of wide interest.