Award details

Bringing genomic capabilities to Vietnamese rice breeding

Reference	BBS/E/J/000CA451
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Giles Oldroyd
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors
Institution	John Innes Centre
Department	John Innes Centre Department
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	27,088
Status	Completed
Type	Institute Project
Start date	01/04/2011
End date	30/09/2012
Duration	18 months

Abstract

The UN places Vietnam in the top 5 countries that will be most severely impacted by climate change. Rising sea levels are the greatest threat to Vietnam, which is a predominantly coastal country, with the threat of seawater inundation of the Mekong River and Red River deltas that are the major rice growing areas. Climate change threatens rice production in Vietnam through increased risk of flooding, salinisation of the soils, periods of drought and newly emerging pests and pathogens. This project integrates the genomics, bioinformatics and crop genetics capabilities available in Norwich, UK with the Institute of Agricultural Genetics in Viet Nam, to bring a genomics capability to rice breeding enhancing the production of rice lines that address the threats of climate change. This will be achieved by re-sequencing a set of Vietnamese rice lines that represents a broad diversity of native Vietnamese rice varieties that have the potential to be incorporated into breeding programmes. These genome sequences will be analysed to identify sequence differences, which will then be related to phenotypic diversity in an informatics platform to provide breeders with markers and genetic variation in key target traits for developing new rice crops for Vietnam.

Summary

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Committee	Not funded via Committee
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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