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Dr. Pierre-Louis Amoussou |
Contact Details:
Crop Genetics Department, John Innes
Centre, Norwich Research Park, Colney, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK;
Phone: +44 (1603)
450000
Fax: +44 (1603) 450045
Email:
pierrelouis.amoussou@bbsrc.ac.uk
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Grantee: |
ICCARD, Paris |
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Grant No:
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2003 FS 046 |
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Amount:
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US $18,260 |
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Duration
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One Year
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Collaborators: John Innes Centre, Norwich, England |
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About the Project
This is a collaborative project
between the John Innes Centre (JIC), the Centre de Coopération
Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD)
and the West African Rice Development Association (WARDA) funded by the
Rockefeller Foundation and CIRAD. This project provides a Fellowship in
the area of rice biotechnology, which will enhance the Rockefeller
Foundation International Program on Rice Biotechnology. The TAC library
will be maintained at the John Innes Centre Genome Laboratory (JGL).
Screening service and TAC clone distribution will be offered by JGL as a
worldwide service on a cost-recovery basis.
Project Objective
To develop an Oryza glaberrima
Transformation-competent Artificial Chromosome (TAC) library.
Expected Outputs
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The library will support the
existing breeding efforts to improve rice performance and cultivation
in West Africa but also anywhere else in Africa. More specifically,
this TAC library will benefit marker-assisted selection breeding
programs using O. glaberrima as a donor of useful genes for
agronomic traits.
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The library will also facilitate
the cloning of candidate genes in O. glaberrima genome by
exploiting existing molecular markers data related to genome regions
of interest.
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The library will bring into the
service of mankind the valuable gene pool of O. glaberrima,
threatened with extinction, as local farmers tend to replace it by the
higher-yielding O.sativa.
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At the fundamental level, this
library will also also contribute to a better understanding of the
relationships between rice genome species and their evolution.
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