Martin Mascher is Head of the Domestication Genomics research group at the Leibnitz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) in Gatersleben, Germany.
Martin has been involved in the IWGSC since 2012. Recently, he worked on the IWGSC RefSeq project and in particular, along with Frédéric Choulet and Gabriel Keeble-Gagnère, in the IWGSC Pseudomolecule Task Force. Their work resulted in the production the IWGSC Reference Sequence (IWGSC RefSeq v1.0) that was made available in January 2017 .
Read his interview here .
August 2017
The Wheat Genome Sequence Odyssey
An article retracing the history of the IWGSC, from 4 people in 2005 to 1,800 members now, 12 years later.
19 July 2017 - IWGSC Reference Sequence v1.0 browser now available at URGI
The IWGSC RefSeq v1.0 sequence and annotation can be viewed in a browser hosted at URGI-INRA
- PhD position at John Innes Centre, UK Safeguarding our daily bread from wheat blast
- Wheats&Women International Conference - Call for abstracts The Wheats&Women International Conference will take place in Rome, Italy, on 14 & 15 June 2018.Abstracts for oral presentations are accept...
- PAG 2018 first announcement The IWGSC will hold two workshops at the Plant and Animal Genome Conference XXVI , 13-17 January 2018, San Diego, CA, US.
- Call for early career speaker travel award Nominations are now being accepted for the IWGSC Early Career and speaker travel award for the primary IWGSC workshop that will be held at the Pla...
- Catherine Feuillet Discovers and Improves Genes for Stronger Crops An article about Catherine Feuillet, IWGSC co-founder and Board member, and her leadership in securing a high quality genome sequence of wheat.
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On 18 July 2014, the IWGSC published in the international journal Science a draft sequence of the bread wheat genome. The chromosome-based draft provides new insight into the structure, organization, and evolution of the large, complex genome of the world’s most widely grown cereal crop.