Unibo Team Leader: Prof. Roberto Tuberosa, Dip. di Scienze e tecnologie agroambientali - DISTA
For many years the size and complexity of the wheat, barley and rye genomes have hampered the development of genomics and its application to produce Triticeae crops with improved composition and characteristics. Recently, however, new and more efficient scientific capabilities and resources have been developed that allows robust genomic programs to be
established for the Triticeae. TriticeaeGenome is designed to achieve significant progresses in Triticeae genomics and support efficient breeding of improved varieties for the European agriculture by: - Constructing and anchoring physical maps from the wheat and barley group 1 and 3 chromosomes that carry a large number of important agronomic traits (e.g. disease resistance, yield and quality) - Isolating genes and QTLs underlying disease resistance, yield and quality traits in wheat and
barley - Identifying and exploiting new alleles for the isolated genes through the use of natural and mutant populations as well as wild germplasm - Supporting the development of new varieties that meet farmer and consumer needs through molecular breeding - Developing new bioinformatic tools to structure, relate and comprehensively analyse the large scale genomics data gathered within the project and - Leading, coordinating and integrating Triticeae genomics research Triticeaegenome is developed as a main contribution to the international consortia efforts in constructing physical maps of barley and hexaploid wheat for improving plant breeding, accelerating gene and QTL isolation and setting up the foundation for future genome sequencing. It will deliver novel information and tools to breeders and scientists for a better understanding of Triticeae genomes organization, evolution, and function thereby, providing a better understanding of the biology of these essential
crops and enabling significant improvement of their composition and characteristics to satisfy the needs of consumers, processors and producers.
Coordinator
INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE-INRA (France)
Other participants
LEIBNIZ - INSTITUT FUER PFLANZENGENETIK UND
KULTURPFLANZENFORSCHUNG (Germany)
USTAV EXPERIMENTALNI BOTANIKI - AKADEMIE VED CESKE REPUBLIKY VEREJNA VYZKUMNA INSTITUCE (Czech Republic)
HELMHOLTZ ZENTRUM MUENCHEN, DEUTSCHES FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM FUER GESUNDHEIT UND UMWELT (Germany)
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO (Italy)
UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA (Israel)
MAA-JA ELINTARVIKETALOUDEN TUTKIMUS KESKUS (Finland)
SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE (UK)
SABANCI UNIVERSITESI (Turkey)
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL BOTANY (UK)
JOHN INNES CENTRE (UK)
UNIVERSITAET ZUERICH (Switzerland)
INRA TRANSFERT S.A. (France)
BIOGEMMA (France)
KWS LOCHOW GMBH (Germany)
ASSOCIAZIONE ISTITUTO DI GENOMICA APPLICATA (Italy)
ALMA MATER STUDIORUM-UNIVERSITA' DI BOLOGNA
- Dip. di Scienze e tecnologie agroambientali - DISTA
- Resp. Scientifico: Prof. Roberto Tuberosa
Start date 01/06/2008
End date 31/05/2012
Duration 48 months
Project cost 8486860 Euro
Project Funding 5300000 Euro
Subprogramme Area Genomics for cereal improvement for food, feed and non-food uses
Contract type Collaborative project Large-scale integrating project