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Functional genomics of wheat endosperm development:a high throughput in situ approach to gene discovery

Reference	BBS/E/J/00001327
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Peter Shaw
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors
Institution	John Innes Centre
Department	John Innes Centre Department
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	132,928
Status	Completed
Type	Institute Project
Start date	01/02/2001
End date	23/05/2004
Duration	40 months

Abstract

We will develop mRNA in situ hybridisation into a systematic, high throughput technique which can be used to survey the expression within tissues and organisms of large numbers of genes. This proposal will develop the necessary technology and apply it to gene and promoter discovery in the development of wheat endosperm, in collaboration with Zeneca Wheat Improvement Centre. The ultimate utility of identifying such genes and promoters will be both to manipulate grain yield and/or quality directly, and to provide a set of specific markers for screening existing accession libraries in more conventional breeding programs organisms of large numbers of genes. This proposal will develop the necessary technology and apply it to gene and promoter discovery in the development of wheat endosperm, in collaboration with Zeneca Wheat Improvement Centre. The ultimate utility of identifying such genes and promoters will be both to manipulate grain yield and/or quality directly, and to provide a set of specific markers for screening existing accession libraries in more conventional breeding programs.

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Committee	Closed Committee - Agri-food (AF)
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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