Project Number: 5366-21000-021-00
Project Type: Appropriated

Start Date: May 10, 2003
End Date: May 09, 2008

Objective:
To develop genetic resources necessary for the improvement of cereal nutritional or other end-use quality. The current focus is grain phytic acid, phosphorus, and mineral nutritional quality improvement. To transfer newly developed genetic technology to public and private groups in order to enhance competitiveness and efficiency of agricultural production, and quality of agricultural products.

Approach:
Loci important to end-use quality will be identified, and heritable variants will be isolated or developed using genetic means. These new quality genes will be genetically mapped, cloned, characterized, and introgressed into cultivars and lines. Downstream effects of new alleles on gene expression genome-wide will be studied. Newly developed germplasm will be evaluated for agronomic nutritional or end-use quality. Replacing 5366-21000-019-00D(4/03). BSL-1 8/31/04.

Project Team

Raboy, Victor Bonman, John

Project Annual Reports

FY 2003

Related National Programs

Plant, Microbial & Insect Genetic Res., Genomics, & Genetic Improv. I (301)   Quality and Utilization of Agricultural Products (306)

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