Founded by the Ministry of Agriculture and Federazione delle Banche di Credito Cooperativo, Bank Foundations of Udine, Trieste, and Gorizia, Rauscedo Cooperative Nursery (PN), the Eurotech Ltd of Amaro (UD), several local grapevine Industries and Wineries, and the Collio DOC Consortium.
Partners Genoscope Paris (France), VIGNA Consortium (Italy), CRA (Italy)
Project overview VIGNE/VIGNA is French/Italian project aiming to sequence the whole grape genome (approx. 480 million of base pairs) and to exploit the information derived from the DNA decoding in the fields of grape physiology, biochemistry, genetics, and breeding. Plant material was the highly homozygous Pinot Noir inbred line PN40024, developed by the INRA-France. The first draft of the sequence correspondent to the 8,4x assembly has been published on Nature in August 2007; the final 12x assembly has been produced in February 2008.
IGA role IGA is one of the three partners committed to genome sequencing jointly to the CRIBI-University of Padua and Genoscope-Paris. IGA is also actively involved in computational genome assembly and repetitive sequence annotation (e.g. transposable elements). Finally IGA is committed to sequence ‘Tocai friulano’ variety for 1X coverage to detect nucleotide and structural variations in grape.
