Data resources used by the askCrop sites (askWheat, askBrassica and askPulse). Answers from the sites link back to records in these resources; please cite the original resource when you use its data.
Ensembl Plants
Genome annotation for the reference and pan-genome assemblies of each crop, gene locations and descriptions, and Compara gene trees used to find orthologues between species.
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plants.ensembl.org
Expression Atlas
EMBL-EBI curated RNA-seq experiments: baseline expression (TPM) by tissue and developmental stage, and differential expression in stress, pathogen and genotype comparisons.
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www.ebi.ac.uk/gxa
Europe PMC
Publications and preprints (PubMed, PMC, bioRxiv and others), searched live with crop-specific filters and gene synonyms.
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europepmc.org
GBIF
Genebank accession (passport) records for wheat, Brassica and legume taxa, mostly Svalbard Global Seed Vault safety duplicates that name the holding genebank and its accession number.
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www.gbif.org
CropSNPdb
SNP-array genotypes: the wheat 40K set for about 28,900 Australian Grains Genebank accessions, the wheat 90K iSelect set, and Brassica 60K datasets for B. napus, B. rapa, B. oleracea and B. juncea.
askWheataskBrassica
snpdb.appliedbioinformatics.com.au
Brassica Genome
UWA Brassica pangenome resources: the B. napus pangenome (gene presence/absence across 53 accessions on Darmor-bzh v8.1), the B. oleracea pangenome, Panache graph pangenome viewers, JBrowse and GBrowse genome browsers, BLAST and downloads.
askBrassica
www.brassicagenome.net
Cicer genome (cicer.info)
UWA improved kabuli (v2.6.3) and desi (v3.0) chickpea reference assemblies with lifted-over gene models (kabuli Ca_ IDs, desi ICC 4958), genome browser, BLAST, TAGdb and downloads.
askPulse
www.cicer.info
Legume Information System (LIS)
Chickpea (CDC Frontier v3) and lentil (CDC Redberry v2) gene models, legume gene families, chickpea and pea pangene sets linking gene IDs across assemblies, chickpea and pea RNA-seq expression, and QTL and GWAS results for soybean (from SoyBase), common bean, cowpea and peanut.
askPulse
www.legumeinfo.org
IWGSC RefSeq annotation
International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium gene models, the gene ID correspondence between RefSeq v1.0, v1.1 and v2.1, functional annotation and genetic marker alignments, distributed by INRAE-URGI.
askWheat
urgi.versailles.inrae.fr
Watkins Wheat Pangenome
Gene presence/absence across 1,038 sequenced Watkins landraces and modern cultivars, with accession origin, ancestral group and UniProt/GO annotation (Watkins Explorer).
askWheat
pangenome.wheatgenome.info
WatSeq phenotype data
Field and glasshouse trial data for the Watkins collection and the Paragon x Watkins RIL and NIL populations (John Innes Centre and partners), released under the Toronto Agreement.
askWheat
opendata.earlham.ac.uk
SCPRID rust trials
Adult-plant and seedling rust scores for Watkins accessions from 2013 trials in Kenya and Ethiopia.
askWheat
doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8349020
SeedStor
The John Innes Centre Germplasm Resources Unit catalogue, linked from Watkins accessions for seed requests.
askWheat
www.seedstor.ac.uk
The Triticeae Toolbox (T3)
Source of the wheat 90K iSelect genotypes for 309 lines held in CropSNPdb.
askWheat
wheat.triticeaetoolbox.org
UniProt
Protein names, families and GO terms for Watkins pangenome genes, the protein sequences used to propose candidate wheat gene symbols, and protein names for the B. oleracea pangenome reference genes.
askWheataskBrassica
www.uniprot.org
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plantdatabases.org.