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November 2009The Maize Genome Sequencing Consortium publishes the B73 Reference Sequence today in Science. AGI played a leading role by selecting and validating a minimum tiling path of 16,000 BAC clones across the maize genome. Details here.
November 2009
AGI Director, Professor Rod Wing, has won a prestigious Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Details here.
June 2009
NSF awards University of Arizona researchers $1.5 million to unlock the genetic code of West African cultivated rice. Details here.
March 20, 2009
AGI releases an updated integrated physical and genetic map for maize (B73).
March 20, 2009
AGI publicly releases Phase I AGP and pseudomolecules for the maize (B73) genome sequence.
March 20, 2009
The maize (B73) Minimum Tiling Path (MTP) is publicly released.
September 2008
AGI Director, Rod A. Wing, won the Award for Research Excellence from AZBio. Details here.
October 2006
NSF Plant Genome Comparative Sequencing Program (PGCSP) Awards Iowa State University, AGI and University of Georgia Purdue and CSHL $816,000 to address the tempo (e.g., regular vs. episodic bursts), directionality (with respect to genomic contraction or expansion), and absolute scale of genome size change, over time, in a model system involving diploid and tetraploid cotton species. For award abstract and more about the NSF PGCSP. Details here.
August 2006
NSF Plant Genome Program (PGP) awards the University of Wisconsin, AGI and Purdue University $796,000 comparatively analyzed the structure and function of centromere of rice chromosome 8 across the AA, BB, CC, EE, FF and GG genomes of rice. For award abstract and more about the NSF PGP. Details here.
December 2005
The Oryza BAC library resource: Construction and analysis of 12 deep-coverage large-insert BAC libraries. Details here.
November 2005
NSF awards WUGSC, CSHL, AGI and ISU $29.5M to sequence the corn genome. Press release.
November 2005
AGI Director, Rod A. Wing, is appointed the first holder of the Bud Antle Endowed Chair of Excellence in Agriculture and Life Sciences.
November 2005
AGI Director, Rod A. Wing, receives the CALS Research Faculty of the Year Award. Details here.
