A subgrant from the PHA4GE program, funded by the Gates Foundation, will support the creation of a genomics-based surveillance system in the Philippines.
An eye-opening 238 pages of just-released documents from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) disclose that in June 2020 at the request of researchers at China's Wuhan University the NIH deleted information about COVID-19 genetic.
Green plants play a fundamental role in ecosystems, human health, and agriculture. As de novo genomes are being generated for all known eukaryotic species as advocated by the Earth BioGenome Project, increasing genomic information on green land plants is essential. However, setting standards for the generation and storage of the complex set of genomes that characterize the green lineage of life is a major challenge for plant scientists. Such standards will need to accommodate the immense variation in green plant genome size, transposable element content, and structural complexity while enabling research into the molecular and evolutionary processes that have resulted in this enormous genomic variation. Here we provide an overview and assessment of the current state of knowledge of green plant genomes. To date fewer than 300 complete chromosome-scale genome assemblies representing fewer than 900 species have been generated across the estimated 450,000 to 500,000 species in the green pla