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Integration of Cruciferae genetic and genomic maps (ICMaps)

Reference	BBS/E/J/000CA275
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Ian Bancroft
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors
Institution	John Innes Centre
Department	John Innes Centre Department
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	31,076
Status	Completed
Type	Institute Project
Start date	10/04/2006
End date	09/04/2008
Duration	24 months

Abstract

Oilseed rape (Brassica napus) is the most important Brassica crop in European agriculture, with both food and industrial applications for the oil it produces. Although the Brassica are the group of crops most closely related to Arabidopsis thaliana, their much greater genome complexity is proving a substantial barrier to the transition to Brassica, for crop improvement, of biological knowledge gain in Arabidopsis. The international research community has therefore launched a Multinational Brassica Genome Project, one aim of which is to sequence the genome of a Brassica species. The genome chosen, on the basis that it is the smallest Brassica genome, is that of Chinese cabbage, B. rapa. We propose to integrate the B. rapa genetic map produced by the proposed fellow with the public genetic map of B. napus (produced by an EU INCO-DEV project, IMSORB, with Asian partners, http://brassica.bbsrc.ac.uk/IMSORB/) by cross-mapping of genetic markers on the two populations and the alignment of sequence-based markers with the Arabidopsis genome. The resource developed will thus establish an extensively integrated genetic and genome resource for the Cruciferae.

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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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