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Construction of an Oryza glaberrima TAC library

Reference	BBS/E/J/0000A163
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Ian Bancroft
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors
Institution	John Innes Centre
Department	John Innes Centre Department
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	18,880
Status	Completed
Type	Institute Project
Start date	01/07/2003
End date	31/12/2004
Duration	18 months

Abstract

This is a collaborative project between the John Innes Centre (JIC), the Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD) and the West African Rice Development Association (WARDA) funded by the Rockefeller Foundation (RF) and CIRAD. This has provided a Fellowship in the area of rice biotechnology, to enhance the RF International Program on Rice Biotechnology. Specifically, the Fellowship will enable the development of an Oryza glaberrima TAC library. This library will benefit marker-assisted selection breeding programs using O. glaberrima as a donor of useful genes for agronomic traits. The library should facilitate the cloning of candidate genes coming from O.glaberrima genome using identified molecular markers that map close to those genes as probes. The TAC clones that hybridize to these markers can be used later to transform plants for genetic complementation. Once the library is constructed, in order to exploit it and as an example of application, we will initiate the first steps of a strategy aiming at cloning the first nematode resistance gene identified in rice, originated from O.glaberrima, which is currently being mapped by us.

Summary

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Committee	Closed Committee - Plant & Microbial Sciences (PMS)
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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