6. AUA - Crops2Industry

C R O P S T O I N D U S T R Y

WP 2

Tasks: 2
-
1 to 2
-
3

Task leader: Dimitra Milioni

Crops2Industry

“Non
-
food Crops
-
to
-
Industry schemes in
EU27”


C R O P S T O I N D U S T R Y

•
Task

2
.
1
:

To

survey

the

generic

tools

currently

available

for

the

selected

non
-
food

crops/species

research,

breeding

production

and

processing

•
Task

2
.
2
:

To

identify

European

Genetic

Resource

Centres


•
Task

2
.
3
:

To

capitalize

on

biotechnology

tools

and

exploit

the

knowledge

of

the

post

genomic

era

for

possible

future

non
-
food

crops

improvement




Objectives
:

To

identify

current

molecular

genetic

technologies

(genomic

and

biotechnological

tools)

and

suggest

their

potential

applications

in

a

crop
-
specific

manner

to

address

a

wide

range

of

breeding

constraints


Work Package 2: Plant breeding

C R O P S T O I N D U S T R Y

Varshney

et al.,

2010

Spanning the gap between genomics and
breeding.

C R O P S T O I N D U S T R Y

•
Task

2
.
1
:

To

survey

the

generic

tools

currently

available

for

the

selected

non
-
food

crops/species

research,

breeding

production

and

processing

•
Task

2
.
2
:

To

identify

European

Genetic

Resource

Centres


•
Task

2
.
3
:

To

capitalize

on

biotechnology

tools

and

exploit

the

knowledge

of

the

post

genomic

era

for

possible

future

non
-
food

crops

improvement




Objectives
:

To

identify

current

molecular

genetic

technologies

(genomic

and

biotechnological

tools)

and

suggest

their

potential

applications

in

a

crop
-
specific

manner

to

address

a

wide

range

of

breeding

constraints


Work Package 2: Plant breeding

C R O P S T O I N D U S T R Y

European Genetic Resource Centres

European

Cooperative

Crop

Genetic

Resources

Program

(
ECPGR
)



EURISCO
,

a

web
-
based

catalogue

Centre

for

Genetic

Resources
,

The

Netherlands

(CGN)


Centre

for

Plant

Genetic

Resources

Poland
,

Blonie,

Poland


Istituto

di

Genetica

Vegetale

(Germplasm

Research

Institute),

Italy


The

Nordic

Gene

Bank
,

Alnarp,

Sweden


The

Research

Institute

of

Crop

Production,

Czech

Republic

UK

Plant

Genetic

Resources

Group,

UK


Germplasm

Resources

Information

Network

(GRIN)
,

USA

Germplasm as a starting point

C R O P S T O I N D U S T R Y

C R O P S T O I N D U S T R Y

Molecular Genomics Resource Centres

Not one gene but all the genes

European

Molecular

Biology

Laboratory

–

European

Bioinformatics

Institute

(EMBL
-
EBI)

National

Centre

for

Biotechnology

Information

(NCBI)

DNA

Databank

in

Japan

(DDBJ)

The

Institute

for

Genome

Research

(TIGR)

PlantGDB


Brassica

Genome

Gateway

GRAMENE

C R O P S T O I N D U S T R Y

C R O P S T O I N D U S T R Y

C R O P S T O I N D U S T R Y

AH Paterson

et al.

Nature

457
, 551
-
556 (2009) doi:10.1038/nature07723

Orthologous gene families between sorghum,
Arabidopsis
, rice
and poplar.

Whole genome shotgun
sequencing project

C R O P S T O I N D U S T R Y

AH Paterson

et al.

Nature

457
, 551
-
556 (2009) doi:10.1038/nature07723

Alignment of sorghum, rice and maize.

C R O P S T O I N D U S T R Y

Molecular markers to study genetic diversity
in sogrhum germplasms

Simple

Sequence

Repeats

(SSR)

Inter

Simple

Sequence

Repeats

(ISSR)

Random

Amplified

Polymorphic

DNA

(RAPD)

Amplified

Fragment

Length

Polymprphism

(AFLP)

Diversity

Arrays

Technology

(DArT)

Single

Feature

Polymorphism

(SFP)

Quantitative

Trait

Locus

(QTL)

C R O P S T O I N D U S T R Y

Genetic mapping of QTLs for sugar
-
related traits in a RIL
population of Sorghum bicolor L. Moench


Shiringani et al.,
T
AQ (
2010
);

121(2):32336.

C R O P S T O I N D U S T R Y

An Induced Sorghum Mutant Population

Section of the leaf blade from BTx623, P5A3, and P7H6

Gallery of selected mutant phenotypes

C R O P S T O I N D U S T R Y

Production of transgenic sorghum plants

Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture

doi
I: 10.1007/s11240
-
007
-
9228
-
1



TRANSGENIC

SWEET

SORGHUM

WITH

ALTEREDLIGNIN

COMPOSITION

AND

PROCESS

OF

PREPARATION

THEREOF

(United

StatesPatent

Application

20100058496
)


Genetic transformation of Sorghum

Development

of

transgenic

sorghum

for

insect

resistance

against

the

spotted

stem

borer

(Chilo

partellus)
.

C R O P S T O I N D U S T R Y

Thank you for your attention

Crops2Industry

“Non
-
food Crops
-
to
-
Industry schemes in
EU27”