ITAS application to enable a new collaboration between Drs Lesley Boyd (NIAB) and Brent McCallum (AAFC) in support of the BBSRC project BB/N01622XX/1
Lead Research Organisation:
National Institute of Agricultural Botany
Department Name: Centre for Research
Abstract
Canada
People |
ORCID iD |
Lesley Boyd (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Description | This travel award has enabled a extremely and supportive collaboration to be established between AAFC, Morden, Canada and NIAB, Cambridge, UK, that has advanced the science at NIAB. |
Exploitation Route | The sources of rust resistance identified will be of value to wheat breeding progammes in Canada and the UK. |
Sectors | Agriculture, Food and Drink |
Description | Identification of leaf and stripe rust resistnace in the wheat cv. Toropi |
Organisation | Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada |
Country | Canada |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Dr Camila Zanella in my research group is analysing the data generated on a Toropi_6.4 x Thatcher wheat mapping population - SNP marker data against leaf and stripe rust phenotypic data. |
Collaborator Contribution | AAFC screened our Toropi genotype along with Toropi_6.4 with the 90K iSelect wheat SNP array. They hosted Dr Camila Zanella for 3 weeks providing her with training in the interpretation and analysis of the 90K ANP data. |
Impact | Manuscripts in preparation |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Identification of rust resistance in the wheat cultivar Toropi - Drs. Brent McCallum & Colin Heibert |
Organisation | Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada |
Country | Canada |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | We provide the post-doctoral support. |
Collaborator Contribution | Provide a mapping population, field trial data and 90k iSelect array screening. |
Impact | Review in Phytopathology |
Start Year | 2016 |