Despite a large and multifaceted effort to understand the vast landscape of phenotypic data, their current form inhibits productive data analysis. The lack of a community-wide, consensus-based, human- and machine-interpretable language for describing phenotypes and their genomic and environmental contexts is perhaps the most pressing scientific bottleneck to integration across...
Gramene (www.gramene.org) is a curated resource
for genetic, genomic and comparative genomics
data for the major crop species, including rice,
maize, wheat and many other plant (mainly grass)
species. Gramene is an open-source project.
All data and software are freely downloadable
through the ftp site (ftp.gramene.org/pub/gramene)
and available for use...
Farmer cooperatives have often maintained inflexible capital structures which severely restrict members' freedom to allocate their own capital in a most profitable manner. This study was conducted to provide insights into how cooperative finance programs might be modified to provide increased capital and, at the same time, be more acceptable...