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Functional genomics of wheat endosperm development: a high throughput in situ approach to gene discovery

ReferenceD14482
Principal Investigator / Supervisor Professor Peter Shaw
Co-Investigators /
Co-Supervisors
Professor Liam Dolan, Professor John Doonan
Institution John Innes Centre
DepartmentCell and Develop Biology
Funding typeResearch
Value (£) 258,656
StatusCompleted
TypeResearch Grant
Start date 01/02/2001
End date 24/05/2004
Duration40 months

Abstract

We will develop mRNA in situ hybridisation into a systematic, high throughput technique which can be used to survey the expression within tissues and organisms of large numbers of genes. This proposal will develop the necessary technology and apply it to gene and promoter discovery in the development of wheat endosperm, in collaboration with Zeneca Wheat Improvement Centre. The ultimate utility of identifying such genes and promoters will be both to manipulate grain yield and/or quality directly, and to provide a set of specific markers for screening existing accession libraries in more conventional breeding programs.

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Committee Closed Committee - Agri-food (AF)
Research TopicsX – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research PriorityX – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative X - not in an Initiative
Funding SchemeX – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme
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