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Genome synteny in Brassicaceae

Reference	BBS/E/J/00000481
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Dr Martin Trick
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors
Institution	John Innes Centre
Department	John Innes Centre Department
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	361,076
Status	Completed
Type	Institute Project
Start date	01/04/1997
End date	31/03/2001
Duration	48 months

Abstract

Brassica species form many important oil, vegetable and animal fodder crops for both European and world agriculture. Genetical improvement to the wealth creating potential of Brassica crops can be made via comparative analysis with genetic maps for related species established by the genome programme, in particular that of Arabidopsis thaliana. The project is examining a number of cloned loci in Arabidopsis that control potentially important agronomic traits (such as flowering time and disease resistance) and, by using sequence similarity and genome synteny, isolating their homologues from B. napus (oilseed rape). Assessments are being made on whether these orthologous gene loci control biologically analogous traits in the crop plant. This project also supports a whole chromosome contribution to our general survey of gene synteny between Arabidopsis and Brassica.

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Committee	Closed Committee - Genes & Developmental Biology (GDB)
Research Topics	X – not assigned to a current Research Topic
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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