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510: Development of plant with oils profiles for industrial products and applications
Reference
BBS/E/H/00GC0229
Principal Investigator / Supervisor
Dr Guy Barker
Co-Investigators /
Co-Supervisors
Institution
University of Warwick
Department
Warwick HRI
Funding type
Research
Value (£)
139,500
Status
Completed
Type
Institute Project
Start date
01/04/2005
End date
31/03/2006
Duration
12 months
Abstract
"Quality of horticultural produce is determined primarily through regulation of gene expression during plant development and in response to environmental variation. It is proposed to study the genomic organisation of several traits that are important for crop quality by: 1) Using tools and resources develop in previous CSG programme to deliver genomic information underlying QTL. This will focus on those QTL associated with seed vigour. 2) To test feasibility of increasing crop value through Novel crops from Brassica using a combination of Biodiversity and genetics. In the previous CSG programme we have develop valuable genomic and genetic resources with which to better understand Brassica genomic organisation. It is proposed to apply these resources to elucidate the genomic organisation of regions surrounding QTL of interest and hence function. This will be done by creating BAC contigs spanning the QTLs. This project should also help provide the links required to make better use of information gained within Arabidopsis to be applied to Brassica research through the integration of genomic information. The information gained previously on QTL associated with oil profiles within Brassica oleracea will also be used to test for the plausibility of altering oil profiles for niche industrial processes. We will use two different mapping populations to investigate the possibility of epistatic interactions of alleles responsible for such traits. This is important as to be economically attractive conventional oilseed crops would either have to genetically engineered or bred to produce a single fatty acid of interest."
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Closed Committee - Genes & Developmental Biology (GDB)
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