Genomic Strategies to Improve Wheat Breeding in Canada
Targeted chromosomes
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Project team
First name | Last name | Institution | Country | |
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Pierre | Hucl | pierre.huclSPAMFILTER@usask.ca | University of Saskatchewan | Canada |
Andrew | Sharpe | NRC-PBI | Canada | |
Dean | Spaner | University of Alberta | Canada | |
Mark | Jordan | Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada CRC | Canada | |
Curt | McCartney | Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada CRC | Canada | |
Ron | Knox | Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada SPARC | Canada | |
Harpinder | Randhawa | Agrculture and Agri-Food Canada LRC | Canada | |
Faouzi | Bekkaoui | NRC-PBI | Canada | |
Viktoriya | Galushko | University of Regina | Canada | |
Richard | Gray | University of Saskatchewan | Canada | |
David | Konkin | NRC-CNRC | Canada |
Project collaborators
First name | Last name | Institution | Country | |
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Hikmet | Budak | budakSPAMFILTER@sabanciuniv.edu | Sabanci University | Turkey |
Beat | Keller | bkellerSPAMFILTER@botinst.uzh.ch | University of Zurich | Switzerland |
Project funding
The 1A sequencing project is supported through the Canadian Triticum Advancement through Genomics (CTAG) programme.
Abstract
One component of the Canadian project focused on wheat improvement is a contribution to the IWGSC’s goal through the generation of a high quality reference sequence for chromosome 1A of bread wheat cv. Chinese Spring. Minimal tile paths of BAC clones representing 1AS and 1AL have been selected from the physical maps generated as part of the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) and are being sequenced using Illumina sequencing platforms.