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Genomics for Triticeae improvement

Reference	BBS/E/J/000CA352
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Michael Bevan
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors
Institution	John Innes Centre
Department	John Innes Centre Department
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	246,325
Status	Completed
Type	Institute Project
Start date	01/06/2008
End date	31/05/2012
Duration	48 months

Abstract

This project is an international collaboration led by INRA in France (Coordinator Catherine Feuillet) and funded by the EC Framework 7 programme. The project aims to generate physical maps of BACs aligned to wheat and barley group 1 and 3 chromosomes and use this resource to isolate genes and new alleles. The specific objectives of the project are to: -Construct and anchor physical maps from the wheat and barley group 1 and 3 chromosomes that carry a large number of important agronomic traits (e.g. disease resistance, yield and quality) -Isolate genes and QTLs underlying disease resistance, yield and quality traits in wheat and barley -Identify and exploit new alleles for the isolated genes through the use of natural and mutant populations as well as wild germplasm -Support the development of new varieties that meet farmer and consumer needs through molecular breeding -Develop new bioinformatic tools to structure, relate and comprehensively analyse the large scale genomics data gathered within the project and -Lead, coordinate and integrate Triticeae genomics research The specific role of the JIC (Group Leader, Mike Bevan) is to construct a physical map of chromosome arm 3DL, which is approximately 400 Mb. JIC will be provided with a BAC library constructed from flow- sorted chromosome 3DL and a set of genetic marker sequences from which probes can be made for BAC identification. The BACs will be fingerprinted and placed into pools representing contigs established by FPC. JIC will also align the Brachypodium genome sequence with wheat groups 1 and 3 using COS markers in order to facilitate further integration of wheat physical maps using conserved gene order.

Summary

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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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