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Ug99, new virulent race of stem rust from East Africa

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European Triticeae Genomics Initiative (ETGI)

ETGI coordinates European efforts in barley and wheat physical mapping, sequencing, high resolution genetic mapping, and development of populations for trait mapping with QTLs and association genetics.

fusarium-net.org

The website of the Global Fusarium Initiative (GFI), a platform for international collaboration on Fusarium head blight.

International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (WGSC)

Established to facilitate and coordinate international efforts toward obtaining the complete sequence of the common (hexaploid) wheat genome.

WIRE, the Wheat Information REsource

The site for an NSF-supported wheat mutagenesis project, using the DEALING (DEtecting Adduct Lesions IN the Genome) technology. The project and the site are still new, but there are diamonds here already. Try the Sequence Manipulation Suite:

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