Award details

Genome organisation in pea

Reference	BBS/E/J/00000157
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Thomas Ellis
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors
Institution	John Innes Centre
Department	John Innes Centre Department
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	1,576,633
Status	Completed
Type	Institute Project
Start date	01/04/1997
End date	31/03/2011
Duration	168 months

Abstract

Legumes include a diverse group of economically important crop plants; they possess a number of unique qualities that cannot be studied, or would be very difficult to study, in other plants. Of these, pea is among the most amenable genetically, and provides a rich source of mutants. This project describes the structure of the pea genome at the level of the genetic map and relates this to sequence organisation and cytogenetics. The relationship between the pea genome and other legume genomes such as Medicago spp and Lotus japonicus is investigated. Such integration of classical genetic and molecular marker based maps is a high priority because it allows the development of tools for integrating information on genes, mutants and phenotypes. This strategy is the only available approach to the isolation of agronomically and developmentally important genes from pea.

Summary

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Committee	Closed Committee - Genes & Developmental Biology (GDB)
Research Topics	Crop Science, Plant Science
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	X - not in an Initiative
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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