Project Number: 1907-21000-029-04
Project Type: Specific Cooperative Agreement

Start Date: Sep 15, 2008
End Date: Sep 15, 2010

Objective:
1. Initiate the creation, development and evaluation of remote sensing approaches for maize growth, water efficiency and nitrogen efficiency. 2. Begin to design the informatics infrastructure to handle high throughput remote sensing and other phenotypic data. 3. Integrate these phenotypic tools with rapid genotyping approaches to identify key genes involved in traits and to make genotype-based breeding progress.

Approach:
With respect to trait dissection, linkage mapping and candidate association approaches will be used. Diverse profiling and high throughput phenotyping approaches will be used to characterize these populations and related molecular aspects with agronomic phenotypes. Additionally, bioinformatic solutions will be developed to relate these genomic and agronomic datasets. The grape genotyping project will use the following approaches: 1) Bioinformatically identify 500 SNPS for Vitis, using publically available sequence; 2) Validate a subset of these SNPS; 3) Design SNP arrays to genotypes 2500 samples, 4) Run the samples on an Illumina Beadstation; and 5) Estimate diversity, population structure, breeding values and associate genetic variation with agronomic rates.