OREGIN - Pre-Breeding Research to Support Climate Change Adaptation, and Reduction of the Environmental Footprint of Oilseed Rape
Lead Research Organisation:
John Innes Centre
Department Name: UNLISTED
Abstract
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Technical Summary
The activities and deliverables from OREGIN will address specific gaps in knowledge, information and resources that have been prioritised as essential to ensuring that LINK and other projects deliver directly via crop genetic improvement. As a result, it is expected that OREGIN will contribute to significant changes in farming over the coming decade.
The primary goal of OREGIN is to provide a comprehensive, stable and reliable platform of resources and information for the exploitation of genetic diversity, to underpin pre-breeding activities. By acting as the hub for the UK OSR R&D sector, the project will enable the network of stakeholders to draw down strategic objectives to a set of crop-related themes and specific traits. The ongoing dialogue amongst the network will focus on identifying hypothesis-driven studies that enable beneficial crop traits to be dissected to a level that crop breeders can incorporate relevant alleles into breeding new varieties.
The key deliverables will take the form of a breeders and pre-breeding 'toolkit'. This requires i) genetic markers in the context of reference linkage maps; ii) a defined range of germplasm representing significant, useful allelic variation; iii) information to place these resources in context of trait variation amenable to breeding selection. This will be achieved via the following objectives:
1.Maintain and develop OREGIN seed and pathogen genetic resources, and enable resolution and introgression of useful variation
2.Quantify and characterise genetic variation for key traits
3.Delivering the pre-breeding toolkit: provision of integrated information to maximise utilisation of genetic diversity
The primary goal of OREGIN is to provide a comprehensive, stable and reliable platform of resources and information for the exploitation of genetic diversity, to underpin pre-breeding activities. By acting as the hub for the UK OSR R&D sector, the project will enable the network of stakeholders to draw down strategic objectives to a set of crop-related themes and specific traits. The ongoing dialogue amongst the network will focus on identifying hypothesis-driven studies that enable beneficial crop traits to be dissected to a level that crop breeders can incorporate relevant alleles into breeding new varieties.
The key deliverables will take the form of a breeders and pre-breeding 'toolkit'. This requires i) genetic markers in the context of reference linkage maps; ii) a defined range of germplasm representing significant, useful allelic variation; iii) information to place these resources in context of trait variation amenable to breeding selection. This will be achieved via the following objectives:
1.Maintain and develop OREGIN seed and pathogen genetic resources, and enable resolution and introgression of useful variation
2.Quantify and characterise genetic variation for key traits
3.Delivering the pre-breeding toolkit: provision of integrated information to maximise utilisation of genetic diversity
Planned Impact
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Organisations
People |
ORCID iD |
| Ian Bancroft (Principal Investigator) |
| Description | Genetic diversity panel established for oilseed rape |
| Exploitation Route | The findings will be taken forward by the rapeseed breeding industry. They gain access to genetic diversity and molecular markers. This will accelerate the breeding process for developing new cultivars. This is important to enable new traits, such as disease resistance, to be rapidly incorporated into high-yielding elite cultivars. If successful cultivars can be developed, the downstream industry who will benefit initially are farmers and seed crushers. End users would include both users of industrial rapeseed oil (e.g. biodiesel) and the public via healthy vegetable oil for cooking. |
| Sectors | Agriculture Food and Drink |
| Description | A greater molecular understanding of the genetic variation available in Brassica napus has been used by oilseed rape breeders to improve the effectiveness of their breeding programs. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2016 |
| Sector | Agriculture, Food and Drink |
| Impact Types | Economic |
| Description | Defra ITT |
| Amount | £556,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | CH0104 |
| Organisation | Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2015 |
| End | 01/2017 |
| Description | ITT |
| Amount | £278,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | CH0104-CCN01 |
| Organisation | Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2017 |
| End | 07/2018 |
| Description | Improving the Nutritional Quality of Rapeseed Oil |
| Amount | £723,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2020 |
| End | 03/2023 |