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ISB News Report - September 2014
http://www.isb.vt.edu/news/2014/Sep14.pdf

Table of Contents

PLANT RESEARCH

Rapid Mutation Detection for Crop Functional Genomics 
Isabelle M. Henry and Luca Comai
The expanding availability of crop plant genome sequence provides great opportunity for more systematic approaches to mutation discovery. In a recent paper, we reported on the use of a combination of new technologies for the rapid and genome-wide detection of mutations. In short, the approach combines the power of exome capture and next-generation sequencing with that of flexible bioinformatics pipeline to rapidly catalog all mutations present in a population.

Feeding the World in a Variable Climate: Unravelling the Plasticity of Crop Plants 
Graham J King
Crop breeding has increasingly become an interdisciplinary exercise in managing complexity. The success of modern plant breeding programs has been based on careful selection, inbreeding, and hybridization informed by a framework of Mendelian and quantitative genetics. In a recent review, we outlined the key issues facing crop production, highlighting the knowledge gap in understanding the molecular and mechanistic basis of "GxE" (genotype by environment interactions) and the emergent property of crop plant plasticity, facilitated by epigenetic phenomena.

REGULATORY NEWS

In the News 
Phill Jones

• GE Crop Court Cases and a Warning for Biotech Inventors
• A Fight over Labels in the Green Mountain State
• Syngenta's Bunge Elevator Case Drops Back to Lower Court
• US Supreme Court Hammers Biotech Patent Applicants

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Published: September 22, 2014