News and Reports

The International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium held three meetings during January 2010 in conjunction with the XVIII Plant and Animal Genome Conference in San Diego, California. All meetings were held at the Town and Country conference center.

The IWGSC workshop at the Plant and Animal Genome XVII Conference from 8:00 am – 10:10 am in the Town & Country room at the Town and Country Convention Center, San Diego.

The ninth IWGSC business meeting was held at Town and Country Convention Center, San Diego.

On 12 January 2010, the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGSC) organized a workshop to develop and discuss protocols and standards for the physical mapping of the hexaploid wheat genome and develop a consensus. In addition, the workshop surveyed the sequencing efforts undertaken within the consortium to coordinate the studies carried out in member laboratories. The goal was to ensure homogeneity in the procedures used for constructing the wheat physical maps by providing guidelines developed in expert laboratories and distributing these to the groups participating in the physical mapping and sequencing of bread wheat chromosomes under the auspice of the IWGSC.