PlantsT is part of the Plant Genome Program for the National Science
Foundation. This database is a central site for the study of the
uptake and translocation of mineral nutrients in plants. In spite
of recent advances in identifying genes involved in nutrient transport,
the systems that control acquisition of individual nutrients remain
largely unknown. The major objective of this project is to identify
gene networks that control uptake and accumulation of a wide array
of plant nutrients and toxic metals.
PlantsT is
funded by the NSF and our main purpose is to bring the most up-to-date
and accurate information necessary for researchers to conduct
experiments on transport/membrane proteins and genes. We scour
available databases in order to bring you information about
genes that have been successfully characterized. PlantsT also
has an annotation system which allows your to submit your own
research discoveries to the site. We will propogate this
annotation to outside databases such as GenBank, PIR, or Swissprot.
Our information is easily accessible and user-friendly. With
the upcoming implementation of InterproScan our feature
scan service will be greatly increased to show what kind of motifs
are located within your genes of interest.
ICP analysis
is done at participating laboratories across the US and are uploaded to
this site for analysis. You can acquire this information
by querying our database for your gene of interest. We
will keep you updated with the changes from the plant transport
world by starting discussions about genes and inform
your when analysis is complete on certain plant genomes. Now that
the Arabidopsis genome has been sequenced we are eagerly waiting
the full rice sequence, and hopefully maize will be available soon
as well.
