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Genetic analysis of oil accumulation in Arabidopsis thaliana and Brassica napus

Reference	GAT09118
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Dr Matthew Hills
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors	Professor Richard Mithen
Institution	John Innes Centre
Department	John Innes Centre Department
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	142,650
Status	Completed
Type	Research Grant
Start date	01/08/1998
End date	01/08/2001
Duration	36 months

Abstract

Increasing oil yield of crops such as oilseed rape (the UK's major oil crop) is a very high priority for the near future but the regulation of this character has proved very difficult to elucidate. We wish to gain a detailed understanding of the genes which regulate oil yield in Brassica napus and Arabidopsis thaliana. We will map QTLs for oil in Arabidopsis using RI lines derived from Ler x Col and Ler x cvi crosses. These will be compared with QTL in 90 lines derived from a Brassica cross made from doubled haploid lines designed to increase diversity, using Arabidopsis DNA markers. The function of the major QTL for oil in Arabidopsis will be established by either i) mapping known genes/ESTs involved in the pathway of oil synthesis or ii) Mendelising the QTL and map based cloning.

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Committee	Closed Committee - Genes & Developmental Biology (GDB)
Research Topics	X – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	Genome Analysis of Agriculturally Important Traits (GAT) [1997-1998]
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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