BLAST can now be directly initiated from GrainGenes genome browsers. Feature and sub-feature sequences can be submitted to BLAST from Feature Details dialog. Arbitrary regions can be submitted to BLAST by highlighting the region and selecting the BLAST highlighted region from the BLAST menu within the browsers.

BLAST video tutorials are available that illustrate how to use this feature.

37,789 records for loci, probes, and sequences for the 2016 50K marker set acquired from The James Hutton Institute Germinate project page were added to GrainGenes. While there are currenlty no genetic maps containing these markers on GG, these are found as significant markers in GWAS studies in barley and will be linked to QTL as those data are curated.

At the virtual Plant and Animal Genome (PAG) conference in 2022, the GrainGenes team presented a talk entitled "GrainGenes: Improved BLAST Services and Genome Browsers to Navigate IWGSC Data" at the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGSC) Structural and Functional Genomics workshop. This talk was parsed into a .pdf file with text narrative. It is available at the IWGSC Website and as a part of the GrainGenes collection of tutorials at : wheat.pw.usda.gov/GG3/tutorials.

Rye Weining genome browser and BLAST service were created at GrainGenes based on Li et al. 2021.

Rye Weining genome browser: https://wheat.pw.usda.gov/jb/?data=/ggds/rye-weining1
Rye Weining BLAST service: https://wheat.pw.usda.gov/blast/

BLAST database can be found at https://wheat.pw.usda.gov/blast/ under "Rye Collections."

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PepsiCo is releasing a set of predicted transcripts and translated protein sequences mapped to OT3098 v2 reference. Researchers are able to access the annotation file as a track on the genome browser. Additional files including a GFF, gene nucleotide fasta, ORF translated peptide fasta, and a text file with top BLAST hits are also available via the download site on GrainGenes.

Aegilops tauschii Aet v5.0 genome browser and BLAST service were created at GrainGenes based on Wang et al., G3, 2021

Aet v5.0 genome browser: https://wheat.pw.usda.gov/jb?data=/ggds/whe-aet5
Aet v5.0 BLAST service: https://wheat.pw.usda.gov/blast/

BLAST database can be found at https://wheat.pw.usda.gov/blast/ under "Wheat D Collections."

WAPO1 (Triticum) has been curated with links to the MASWheat page describing the protocol to distinguish alleles.

We updated the Quick Links on GrainGenes' homepage (https://wheat.pw.usda.gov). We added icons for
1) Job listings
2) How to cite GrainGenes, and
3) Video Tutorials

This group of gene classes describes the accumulated research into the basis of the variation in glume color phenotypes which spans red, black, brown and grey colors.