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Lolium and Trifolium genetics, genomics and germplasm development

Reference	BBS/E/W/10962A01B
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Ian Armstead
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors	Professor Glyn Jenkins, Professor Athole Marshall, Professor Leif Skot, Mr Ian Thomas, Dr Danny Thorogood
Institution	Aberystwyth University
Department	IBERS
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	2,290,933
Status	Completed
Type	Institute Project
Start date	01/04/2012
End date	31/03/2017
Duration	59 months

Abstract

Elucidating the genetic architecture of quantitative traits is of particular significance for perennial forages such as the ryegrasses and clovers; targets include biomass yield, flowering time, and quality traits such as water soluble carbohydrates, digestibility and protein content, abiotic and biotic stress tolerances and nutrient use efficiencies. The increasing potential of ryegrass as a source of renewable bioenergy emphasizes the importance of being able to manipulate genomes to enhance targeted traits. We are using a range of experimental genetic populations in ryegrasses and clovers (bi-parental mapping, nested association mapping, genomic selection) to both identify markers associated with key traits which can be deployed in traditional breeding programmes and to develop marker-driven breeding protocols to enhance the efficiency of the crop improvement process. This work is done in close collaboration with commercial plant breeders in order to ensure direct relevance. Additionally, we are seeking to generate and identify new sources of variation by manipulating genetic recombination frequencies and incompatibility systems and by exploring the range of ecotypic variation that exists in IBERS germplasm collections.

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Committee	Not funded via Committee
Research Topics	Bioenergy, 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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