Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP140100537

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP140100537

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Defining the Brassica pan-genome and establishing methods for gene conversion based crop improvement. Gene content varies between individual varieties. The project aims to apply novel genomic tools to identify and characterise the fixed and variable gene content in the important crop canola and use this to understand genome evolution as well as develop tools to accelerate canola breeding. The project team have developed and used a high-resolution genotyping approach to demonstrate that gene conversions, short recombination events which lead to the non-reciprocal exchange of genomic regions during meiosis, are abundant in crop genomes. The project aims to develop methods and resources to characterise gene conversion in canola and establish a basis for gene conversion based crop improvement.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 16-06-2015

End Date: 30-09-2018

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $630,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Genome Structure and Regulation | Genomics | Crop and Pasture Improvement (Selection and Breeding) | Genetics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Canola |

Other Keywords

Canola | Crop and Pasture Improvement (Selection and Breeding) | Expanding Knowledge in the Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Genetics | Genome Structure and Regulation | Genomics

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