GO:Thus: major limitation for maize is nutrients, not water. N2 and phosphorus. Too little in dev world; too much in 1st wrld #PAGXXIII
11:05am January 14th 2015 via Hootsuite
GO: Map of global consumption 2012 Mueller Nature ref http://t.co/zSmEgU7gZy Overlay with Maize-prod areas, nutrient-limited #PAGXXIII
11:03am January 14th 2015 via Hootsuite
GO:Solving the nitrogen problem - we are heavily dependent. N2 fertilizers causing nitrification, algal blooms #PAGXXIII
11:02am January 14th 2015 via Hootsuite
Last plenary: Giles Oldroyd (John Innes Centre UK) Engineering Nitrogen-Fixing Symbiotic Associations in Cereals #PAGXXIII
11:00am January 14th 2015 via Hootsuite
RT @SeqComplete: #PAGXXIII #genomics great tweetline contributors @klsywd @wheatgenome @DaleYuzuki @taylorlawley @mt_ur_mind @assemblathon
10:43am January 14th 2015 via Hootsuite
.@Sagebio Oops! Noted.
10:42am January 14th 2015 via Hootsuite in reply to
Over next weeks my updates from #PAGXXIII (both video and posts) will be live on @lifetech's Behind the Bench http://t.co/FUiRKO0eJh
10:41am January 14th 2015 via Hootsuite
RT @moorejh: Great Nature Reviews Genetics paper on data integration by @MarylynRitchie & @sap_PSU http://t.co/atzTMeD8BA #bioinformatic
10:31am January 14th 2015 via Hootsuite
RT @biomickwatson: Some details on the new HiSeq 3000 and 4000 http://t.co/M9a9ojeP6d
9:25am January 14th 2015 via Hootsuite
More at #AGBT15 MT @genetics_blog: 10X Genomics Raises $55.5M. Seems to be a hack on ILMN machine to get long reads. http://t.co/dmPVEdnS5F
8:20am January 14th 2015 via Hootsuite
RT @Farrell__JD: “@klsywd: Some of the vendors are robots this year #PAGXXIII http://t.co/NiKM2PXuL9” @Data2Bio
7:47am January 14th 2015 via Twitter Web Client
RT @mclafave: http://t.co/rUj5CDsSvv now has notes from the #PAGXXIII @PacBio workshop. ~50x PacBio seq gives you a pretty solid assembly.
7:45am January 14th 2015 via Hootsuite
MT @moorejh: ID'ing & amending mislabeled #DNA sequences in #genomics DB's - The Scientist http://t.co/sEY1Fg2TgP http://t.co/XK3ZxVDZMW
7:20am January 14th 2015 via Hootsuite
RT @washingtonpost: Map: Literally every goat in the United States http://t.co/jgYdOtuxFV http://t.co/1dx8qsYiGh
6:15am January 14th 2015 via Hootsuite
RT @KAMChapman: Wonderful - sometimes a speech goes even further than even a paper. http://t.co/eQATQl0TPp @npch #Force2015
5:45am January 14th 2015 via Hootsuite
RT @globeandmail: ICYMI: Scientists unleash the power of immunotherapy on stubborn cancers http://t.co/aiWOwgFGJT
4:15am January 14th 2015 via Hootsuite
RT @SMToolsGo: How to Power-Up OS X Spotlight with Flashlight via @lifehacker http://t.co/hSUN1c1kfU
3:05am January 14th 2015 via Hootsuite
RT @lexnederbragt: The PromethION as 'the Borg version of the MinION' http://t.co/W1g0kC0Sk0 Nicely done by @OmicsOmicsBlog #nanopore
2:01am January 14th 2015 via Hootsuite
RT @humanlongevity: Personal Genome Diagnostics, Inc. and Human Longevity, Inc. Sign Cancer Genomics Agreement http://t.co/bNId7DbHDg
1:05am January 14th 2015 via Hootsuite
Woman recreates portraits of her ancestors going back 200 years | i100 http://t.co/SrXU00BEt3
12:20am January 14th 2015 via Hootsuite
RT @cbtadvisors: Look out, @Organovo MT @3dersorg OxSyBio raises £1m 3D printer 4synth tissue http://t.co/FfFLVCEL4z http://t.co/TFgcftOMoH
11:50pm January 13th 2015 via Hootsuite
RT @AstroTerry: #Astrobutch took this early this morning- Mid Atlantic USA with #aurora and #sunrise- wow! http://t.co/e0baMWi2eq
10:40pm January 13th 2015 via Hootsuite
NT:New trials established for TME14. Acknowledges @gatesfoundation #PAGXXIII
8:45pm January 13th 2015 via Hootsuite
NT:But most plants also affected by Cassava Mosaic Disease - now acquired susceptibility. CMD2 appears turned off (!) #PAGXXIII
8:43pm January 13th 2015 via Hootsuite
NT:Concl: siRNA strategy 'appears to hold sig potential for controlling CBSD' Ongoing: virus sequencing, graft challenge PAGXXIII
8:41pm January 13th 2015 via Hootsuite
NT: Overlapping: Mtwapa (Coastal Kenya), to test different context of viruses. 19 lines, very high resistance 18/19 <5% symptoms #PAGXXII
8:39pm January 13th 2015 via Hootsuite
NT:8 mos later with stake-derived plants (not cultured), very similar results. #PAGXXIII
8:38pm January 13th 2015 via Hootsuite
NT:11 lines had <5% any disease symptoms; correlated with high siRNA expression #PAGXXIII
8:36pm January 13th 2015 via Hootsuite
NT: Every plot surrounded by CBSD-infected plots TME204. Every plant scored for loss (1-5). Photos - wt vs transgenics #PAGXXIII
8:35pm January 13th 2015 via Hootsuite
NT: At 14w post-graft; 5/9 were CBSV and UCBSV-resistant, correlated to high expressors. April 2013 25 transgenic lines planted #PAGXXIII
8:33pm January 13th 2015 via Hootsuite
NT:Developed CBSD res TME204; after 425 transgeneic lines (2011-12), 350 screened for low-copy. 52 met low-copy, VBB-free #PAGXXIII
8:32pm January 13th 2015 via Hootsuite
.@JChrisPires Certainly - I view it as a public duty of sorts, although sometimes very difficult to look up with only a name+year! #PAGXXIII
8:28pm January 13th 2015 via Hootsuite in reply to
NT: Cassava brown streak disease (CBSD), transmitted by white flies (like CMD), leaf mottling, brown lesions on storage roots #PAGXXIII
8:27pm January 13th 2015 via Hootsuite
NT:Provided at no charge from the tech developers; a public-service project. Partners w/KALRI (Kenya), Uganda etc. #PAGXXIII
8:26pm January 13th 2015 via Hootsuite
NT:RNAi-mediated resistance; confined field trials; virology; regulatory; infrastructure and regulatory capacity; comm's #PAGXXIII
8:25pm January 13th 2015 via Hootsuite
NT:VIRCA is a product-dev project: generating preferred cassava varieties to small-holder farmers in Africa #PAGXXIII
8:24pm January 13th 2015 via Hootsuite
Nigel Taylor (Donald Danforth Plant Science MO) "The VIRCA Project" (Virus Resistant Cassava for Africa) #PAGXXIII
8:23pm January 13th 2015 via Hootsuite
MW:Q:What about CMD1? A:If anyone has the paper... can't locate that SSR marker... #PAGXXIII
8:20pm January 13th 2015 via Hootsuite
MW:First GWAS in Cassava - w/rapid progress in determining CM2 location. One new small resistance effect gene located on chr14 #PAGXXIII
8:19pm January 13th 2015 via Hootsuite
MW: 11MB region; co-locates with known SSR markers. Work suggests a third locus (CMD3) #PAGXXIII
8:17pm January 13th 2015 via Hootsuite
MW:15y, 13 locations of phenotype data (38.8K observations), scored on CMD severity. Showed GWAS, major QTL on chr8 #PAGXXIII
8:10pm January 13th 2015 via Hootsuite
MW:6128 clones genotyped & phenotyped; 40K SNPs (MAF >0.05). 2 gen of genomic selection progeny #PAGXXIII
8:07pm January 13th 2015 via Hootsuite
MW:Existing improvements are built on a narrow base (CM2) 2014 Virus Res http://t.co/yS8BLCRp4u #PAGXXIII
8:06pm January 13th 2015 via Hootsuite
MW:Part of NextGen Cassava Project http://t.co/VyXDAQPdsz Describes Cassava Mosaic Disease, progress in dev. CMD resistance #PAGXXIII
8:04pm January 13th 2015 via Hootsuite
Marnin Wolfe (Cornell Univ) "Genome-Wide Association Analyses Reveal Key Aspects of Genetic Architecture Cassava in Africa" #PAGXXIII
8:02pm January 13th 2015 via Hootsuite
RP: Want to use genome editing to target ID'd deleterious muts. Again credits the @gatesfoundation for their support. #PAGXXIII
8:01pm January 13th 2015 via Hootsuite
RP:In progress: RNA-Seq transcriptome assemblies from 6 strains to obtain annotations #PAGXXIII
7:55pm January 13th 2015 via Hootsuite
RT @KATAphone: Link to BayesR software coded by Moser. Input is PLINK! http://t.co/IBQU9xnNfj .Thank you @drhansdd !! #PAGXXIII @Farrell__JD
7:51pm January 13th 2015 via Hootsuite
RP:Obj: ID deleterious mutations, then model it. Generate Cassava hapmap, use annotations. Test against inbred NaCRRI pops #PAGXXIII
7:48pm January 13th 2015 via Hootsuite
RP: Clonally propagated - deleterious muts accumulate. A constant mutational pressure. Est 9 deleterious muts in maize/gen #PAGXXIII
7:46pm January 13th 2015 via Hootsuite
