China Partnering Award: towards a common toolkit for oilseed rape research
Lead Research Organisation:
John Innes Centre
Department Name: Crop Genetics
Abstract
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Publications
Cheng H
(2019)
Identification of Bna.IAA7.C05 as allelic gene for dwarf mutant generated from tissue culture in oilseed rape.
in BMC plant biology
| Description | We organised a brassica workshop at the john innes centre and invited 5 representatives from the chinese academy of sciences oilseeds crop research insitute in China in Septembeer 2017. We shard unpublished work and discussed sharing resources and expertise iuncluding sharing seeds, genome sequence information and access to facilities. We attended a follow up meeting in Wuhan in May 2019. At this meeting we signed a joint laboratory agreement, which should enable OCRI-CAAS to apply for more money for UK bilateral meetings in future. We shared updated publications and protocols. |
| Exploitation Route | This has led to a new collaboration between the JIC and CAAS developing new breeding tools for oilseed rape research. the work is funded £100,000 by JIC and will involve further exchange of research personnel. |
| Sectors | Agriculture, Food and Drink |
| Description | CEPAMs funding at the John Innes cENTRE |
| Amount | £99,752 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2018 |
| End | 08/2019 |
| Description | Genomic approaches to increasing resilience in oilseed rape seedling establishment in the Yangtze River basin |
| Amount | £316,311 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | BB/P022677/1 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2017 |
| End | 06/2019 |
| Title | New Brassica transformation method introduced to UK. |
| Description | The method allows us to make transgenic brassica plants, using more varieties and with increased efficiency compared to the previous method was using. This has been transferred to BRACT, the UK crop transformation service, based at JIC. The efficiency is good enough to enable gene editing of brassica crops. |
| Type Of Material | Technology assay or reagent |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Currently it is too recent to have led to any impacts. However, it will soon be made available for the whole research community after which substantial academic impacts are expected. |
| Description | OCRI-CAAS partnership |
| Organisation | Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We formed a collaborative partnership for this porposal seconding a researcher from the oilseeds crop research institute in Wuhan China to the UK. We are capacity building in China by installing a state of the art automated seed vigour phenotyping platform in Wuhan which has been used to investigate seed vigour in near market chinese oilseed rape germplasm. We also provide training of researchers and access to our genetics pipelines. |
| Collaborator Contribution | They ahve brough skill and expertise in rapeseed cultivation in China plus access to Chinese state and private sector breeding programmes. OCRI-CAAS have facilitated the transfer of their improved crop transformation protocols to the UK. |
| Impact | Project meeting between JIC researchers and OCRI-CAAS, September 2017. Installation of the automated phenoytping platform, December 2017. The collaboration is multidisciplnary, requiring our expertise in computer vision and machine learning. Miniconference in May 2019 in Wuhan, China. Researchers from JIC networked with scientists from the chinese academcy of agribultural science and Huazhong agricultural university in Wuhan. The Chinese partners placed a postdoc on secondment to facotlitate the learning by JIXC staff of the brassica transformation protocol used in Wuhan. |
| Start Year | 2017 |