Founded by EU within the 7th Framework Program
Partners Partners Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA-France), Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK - Germany), Institute of Experimental Botany (IEB - Czech Republic), GSF- National Research Center for Environment and Health (GSF-Germany), Università degli Studi di Milano (UMIL-Italy), University of Haifa (HU-Israel) Maa- ja elintarviketalouden tutkimuskeskus (MTT-Finland), Scottish Crop Research Institute (SCRI-UK), Sabanci University (SABA-Turkey), National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB-UK), John Innes Centre (JIC-UK), Universität Zürich (UZH-Switzerland), INRA Transfert (IT France), Biogemma (BGA-France), Lochow-Petkus GmbH (LP-Germany), University of Bologna (UNIBO-Italy)
Project overview Wheat and barley are among the main cereal crops grown in Europe. Despite their agricultural relevance and the pressing demand of molecular tools supporting genetic improvement of these species, the complexity of their genomes in terms of size (17 Gb for the bread wheat genome), repeat content (>80%) and ploidy level (wheat is hexaploid) has often been considered too challenging for genome-wide investigations. Recently however, several interesting tools have been set up, such as chromosome flow-sorting, BAC libraries, extensive EST collections, transformation systems, wild and induced mutant collections, DNA oligo microarrays. These novel resources and expertise allowed new large scale genomic programs. TriticeaeGenome project aims to produce genetically anchored physical maps of group 1 and 3 chromosomes in wheat and barley, two sister species of the Triticeae tribe, diverged about 10-14 Myrs ago, sharing high colinearity in spite of their different ploidy level (hexaploid and diploid respectively). The TriticeaeGenome project represents a further contribution to the international efforts aiming to improve cereal breeding through map-based gene and QTL isolation. It also contribute to pave the way for a future genome sequencing project.
