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Tissue culture and transformation of diploid wheat species

ReferenceBBS/E/C/00004374
Principal Investigator / Supervisor Professor Huw Jones
Co-Investigators /
Co-Supervisors
Institution Rothamsted Research
DepartmentRothamsted Research Department
Funding typeResearch
Value (£) 316,169
StatusCompleted
TypeInstitute Project
Start date 01/01/2001
End date 31/03/2004
Duration39 months

Abstract

Efficient wheat transformation systems, incorporating clean-gene technologies and strong tissue-specific or developmentally regulated promoter sequences will provide novel germplasm for conventional cereal breeding programmes and is also a platform technology with which to study gene function and to identify novel wheat genes via tagging. Gene functional analysis is more flexible in diploid wheat than hexaploid wheat. For this reason, and in order to exploit potentially valuable genes located in diploid wheat genotypes we aim to develop tissue culture and DNA delivery protocols for diploid wheat species, focussing on the likely progenitors of current commercial wheat.

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Committee Closed Committee - Plant & Microbial Sciences (PMS)
Research TopicsX – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research PriorityX – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative X - not in an Initiative
Funding SchemeX – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme
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