Unlocking The Agricultural Potential Of The Dark Genome

释放黑暗基因组的农业潜力

• 批准号: DE240100959
• 负责人: Dr Mark Rabanus-Wallace
• 金额: $ 26.09万
• 依托单位: The University of Melbourne
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2024-01-01 至 2026-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DE240100959
• 关键词: Unlocking; Agricultural; Potential; Dark; Genome

Sustaining competitive agricultural production in the face of climate change demands more resilient, diverse, and adaptable crop varieties. Studies on the genes of crop plants have had huge benefits for agriculture, but genes themselves make up only a tiny fraction of the genome. It has until recently been impossible to assemble the 'dark' space between genes. Using ultra-modern barley genomes, this project aims to harness information from the dark genome to (i) discover new genes with agricultural importance, (ii) illuminate invisible genomic features that can slow down plant breeding programs, and (iii) identify opportunities to transfer useful new genes into the cultivated gene pool.

面对气候变化，维持有竞争力的农业生产需要更具弹性，多样性和适应性的作物品种。对作物基因的研究对农业有巨大的好处，但基因本身只占基因组的一小部分。直到最近，基因之间的“黑暗”空间还不可能组装起来。利用超现代大麦基因组，该项目旨在利用来自暗基因组的信息（i）发现具有农业重要性的新基因，（ii）阐明可能减缓植物育种计划的不可见的基因组特征，以及（iii）确定将有用的新基因转移到栽培基因库中的机会。