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Germplasm Resources Unit

Reference	BBS/E/J/000PR8000
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Dr Noam Chayut
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors	Professor Simon Griffiths
Institution	John Innes Centre
Department	John Innes Centre Department
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	717,905
Status	Current
Type	Institute Project
Start date	01/04/2017
End date	31/03/2023
Duration	59 months

Abstract

The Germplasm Resources Unit (GRU) is a national capability supported by the BBSRC for the curation, promotion and dissemination of germplasm which serves academic, industrial and non-industrial groups both within the UK and internationally. We have established a strong and growing reputation as a centre of best practise for long term curation and distribution of key germplasm collections of cereals, legumes and brassicas. Our information management and external database system ‘SeedStor’ provides users with a highly functional web interface to search and interrogate the GRU collections. The GRU collections resource the John Innes Centre’s BBSRC funded Institute Strategic Programme’s and the UK/international bioscience community’s use and exploitation of these resources. The GRU collections form part of the UK’s conservation effort to the International Treaty for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) as well as being a key centre for the curation and verification of newly generated resources handed over to the GRU for long term curation and distribution such as the in silico wheat TILLING populations. The GRU will develop closer alignment with evolving data generated using genomics and phenomics technologies.

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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