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Setaria Comes of Age: Meeting Report on the Second International Setaria Genetics Conference
Setaria viridis is an emerging model for cereal and bioenergy grasses because of its short stature, rapid life cycle and expanding genetic and genomic toolkits. Its close phylogenetic relationship with economically important crops such as maize and sorghum positions Setaria as an ideal model system...
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2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5625327/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29033954 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2017.01562 |
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author | Zhu, Chuanmei Yang, Jiani Shyu, Christine |
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description | Setaria viridis is an emerging model for cereal and bioenergy grasses because of its short stature, rapid life cycle and expanding genetic and genomic toolkits. Its close phylogenetic relationship with economically important crops such as maize and sorghum positions Setaria as an ideal model system for accelerating discovery and characterization of crop genes that control agronomically important traits. The Second International Setaria Genetics Conference was held on March 6–8, 2017 at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, MO, United States to discuss recent technological breakthroughs and research directions in Setaria (presentation abstracts can be downloaded at https://www.brutnelllab.org/setaria). Here, we highlight topics presented in the conference including inflorescence architecture, C(4) photosynthesis and abiotic stress. Genetic and genomic toolsets including germplasm, mutant populations, transformation and gene editing technologies are also discussed. Since the last meeting in 2014, the Setaria community has matured greatly in the quality of research being conducted. Outreach and increased communication with maize and other plant communities will allow broader adoption of Setaria as a model system to translate fundamental discovery research to crop improvement. |
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spelling | pubmed-56253272017-10-13 Setaria Comes of Age: Meeting Report on the Second International Setaria Genetics Conference Zhu, Chuanmei Yang, Jiani Shyu, Christine Front Plant Sci Plant Science Setaria viridis is an emerging model for cereal and bioenergy grasses because of its short stature, rapid life cycle and expanding genetic and genomic toolkits. Its close phylogenetic relationship with economically important crops such as maize and sorghum positions Setaria as an ideal model system for accelerating discovery and characterization of crop genes that control agronomically important traits. The Second International Setaria Genetics Conference was held on March 6–8, 2017 at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, MO, United States to discuss recent technological breakthroughs and research directions in Setaria (presentation abstracts can be downloaded at https://www.brutnelllab.org/setaria). Here, we highlight topics presented in the conference including inflorescence architecture, C(4) photosynthesis and abiotic stress. Genetic and genomic toolsets including germplasm, mutant populations, transformation and gene editing technologies are also discussed. Since the last meeting in 2014, the Setaria community has matured greatly in the quality of research being conducted. Outreach and increased communication with maize and other plant communities will allow broader adoption of Setaria as a model system to translate fundamental discovery research to crop improvement. Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-09-28 /pmc/articles/PMC5625327/ /pubmed/29033954 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2017.01562 Text en Copyright © 2017 Zhu, Yang and Shyu. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Plant Science Zhu, Chuanmei Yang, Jiani Shyu, Christine Setaria Comes of Age: Meeting Report on the Second International Setaria Genetics Conference |
title | Setaria Comes of Age: Meeting Report on the Second International Setaria Genetics Conference |
title_full | Setaria Comes of Age: Meeting Report on the Second International Setaria Genetics Conference |
title_fullStr | Setaria Comes of Age: Meeting Report on the Second International Setaria Genetics Conference |
title_full_unstemmed | Setaria Comes of Age: Meeting Report on the Second International Setaria Genetics Conference |
title_short | Setaria Comes of Age: Meeting Report on the Second International Setaria Genetics Conference |
title_sort | setaria comes of age: meeting report on the second international setaria genetics conference |
topic | Plant Science |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5625327/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29033954 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2017.01562 |
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