Another emblematic flower joins the genome club: Ceiba Genome

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Ceiba genome

Bauhinia Genome has focussed on teaching the people of Hong Kong about genomics by studying the DNA sequence of our emblematic flower Bauhinia blakeana. Now our neighbour cities of Guangzhou in Southern China, and Kaohsiung just across the Taiwan Straits, have joined the floral genome club, with their city flower sequenced. Bombax ceiba L., the … [Read more…]

Crowdfunded genomes and the plant genome big bang

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Bauhinia Genome Update While we’ve been quiet on the blog things are still progressing in the world of Bauhinia Genome. Data has been continued to be analysed by students at CUHK and their transcriptome assemblies have been made public from the GigaScience GigaDB platform. Prof Stephen Tsui presented this work at the International Botanical Conference … [Read more…]