News
AdVaB Project starts
The BBSRC Innovations in Crop Science Project "
Adding Value to the UK Brassica crop science community (AdVaB)" commenced Jan 8th 2007
UK B. rapa sequencing
The BBSRC has announced funding for the UK contribution to Phase 2 sequencing of the Multinational
Brassica rapa genome sequencing project. (Dec 06)
Multinational B. rapa sequencing Project
The MBGP Brassica rapa sequencing project met a significan milestone during 2006, with the completion of BAC-end sequencing of >130,000 BACs by an international consortium (Australia,Canada, Germany, Korea, UK, USA), together with the completion of sequencing the set of 530 "anchor seed BACs". This completes the first phase of the project to sequence the all 10 chromosomes of the 500Mbp
B. rapa sequence (
Brassica napus 'A' genome). Five chromosomes are now being sequenced by Korea (R3,R9), Australia (R7) and the UK-China consortium (R1, R8). It is hoped that further chromosomes are expected to be sequenced by the USA and Canadian projects, subject to funding.
