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Genomic approaches to sugarcane breeding

Reference	BBS/OS/GC/000009B
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Dr Jose De Vega
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors
Institution	Earlham Institute
Department	Earlham Institute Department
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	236,420
Status	Completed
Type	Research Grant
Start date	19/10/2016
End date	31/07/2017
Duration	9 months

Abstract

70% of the sugar produced globally originates from sugarcane. Sugarcane is grown in tropical ODA countries (Brazil, China, India, Colombia) and sugar production is a major component of their economies. As consequence, there are conventional sugarcane breeding programs in several countries that produce commercial varieties adapted to the local conditions. The average time to develop and release a new commercial sugarcane variety is 10 years. Implementing genomic approaches in breeding, particularly the use of marker assisted selection (MAS) and trait association through Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS), would allow more efficient characterisation of natural and breeding populations, reducing this time. However, these techniques require genomic data and resources that do not exist in sugarcane to date. Our data and analysis will provide the breeders with the fundamental genomic resources required to start using MAS and GWAS in sugarcane breeding worldwide

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	GCRF National Institutes of Bioscience Data and Resources (GCRF NIBDR) [2016]
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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