ERA-PG Project:
Genomics-assisted exploitation of barley diversity (EXBARDIV): a
collaboration between
Andy Flavell (Coordinator; University of Dundee at SCRI),
Klaus Pillen (Max Planck Institute, Köln),
Alan Schulman (MTT Helsinki),
Andreas Graner (IPK-Gatersleben),
Luigi Cattivelli (CRA-IECR, Fiorenzuola d'Arda),
Søren Rasmussen (Faculty Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen) and
Joanne Russell (Scottish Crop Research Institute, Invergowrie)
Acronym: EXBARDIV
Funding: 2.4 million Euros
Goals:
The central goal of this project is to establish an incremental association
mapping approach based on different population types for the discovery of
new gene alleles in wild and landrace barley, which can be exploited for
crop breeding. Our approach will build upon the strong genomics base of
barley and will apply association genetics concepts pioneered in humans
and Arabidopsis to test the efficiency of the association genetics
approach for identifying gene alleles in Hordeum that are needed by the
breeder. Our second objective is to recruit the new useful gene
alleles, which have been discovered in the above studies, into advanced
back-cross (ABC) breeding programs derived from wide crosses between
H. spontaneum germplasm and elite cultivars. This will allow us to
determine the efficiencies of identification and extraction of useful
alleles in barley breeding programs based upon wide crosses. Our third
major project objective is to use the huge DNA and marker data set
obtained in the project to determine important population genetic
parameters for barley.
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