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EGRAM: plant genome resource centre

Reference	BBS/E/J/00003216
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Dr Mike Gale
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors
Institution	John Innes Centre
Department	John Innes Centre Department
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	134,777
Status	Completed
Type	Institute Project
Start date	01/10/1997
End date	31/03/2001
Duration	42 months

Abstract

European Gramineae Mapping Project objectives are to combine information generated on cereals and grasses through understanding their comparative genome structure using rice as the central species for comparative genetic analysis. To develop methodologies to isolate and study useful genes for disease resistance from these species using rice DNA libraries as entry points for gene isolation. To achieve the objectives the EGRAM project is grouped into two sections, 1) resources; to develop a large set of anchor probes to provide a framework in rice of two mapped populations, including free access to contiged large-insert rice libraries to allow genome comparisons and gene cloning activities later in the project. 2) Diseases; studies on resistance R genes will identify, tag and clone R genes for rusts in wheat and ryegrass, and several diseases of barley to test positional cloning methods using R gene sequence homologies in rice. Major R genes will be mapped as well as QTLs for durable and quantitative resistances in wheat, ryegrass and fescue.

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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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