BBSRC Embrapa: Using computational novel methods to characterise the genetics of tan spot resistance in wheat.

Anyela Camargo博士将把她在计算机视觉、系统生物学、统计学和生物信息学方面的专业知识加入到该项目中。自从他在Corpoica工作以来，她就一直对植物病害监测这个话题感兴趣，在那里，她开发了一种监测棉花作物的工具。在利物浦大学，她开发了一种用于植物疾病早期检测的系统。后来，她参与了描述拟南芥胁迫反应的基因网络的建模工作。现在，她正在使用Brachypodium disachon植物模型来识别与抗稻瘟病相关的基因。John Doonan是国家植物表型组学中心的主任，他将加入他在遗传学和分子生物学方面的专业知识，从分子的角度帮助描述小麦对褐斑病的抗性项目。Narcis Fernandez-Fuentes博士在生物信息学的不同方面拥有10多年的经验，并开发了许多被科学界广泛使用的数据库和网络服务器。费尔南德斯-富恩特斯博士目前在IBERS的C3G ISPG拨款计划中领导生物信息学研究，其中一部分涉及通过结合一系列组学数据集和开发综合方法来发现与一系列感兴趣的特征相关的基因。约翰·德雷珀教授在植物生物学、分析光谱学和计算机科学之间的接口上有广泛的工作。在国际上，他一直是使用代谢组学和机器学习来研究无症状宿主组织中病原体入侵的早期阶段的先驱。他在代谢组学、短柱生物学和植物防御学方面有着长期的出版记录。Aberystwyth大学的Ibers是公共部门黑麦草、牧草和燕麦植物育种的主要中心。IBERS拥有内部高性能计算机(HPC)设施、下一代测序实验室和英国独一无二的国家植物表型组学中心。NPPC基于自动无损图像分析系统，运行在专门建造的温室综合体中。该系统旨在处理一系列植物，包括燕麦、小麦、大麦、玉米和芒属等大大小小的植物。NPPC为跨学科研究提供了一个重点，以促进发现复杂性状变异的遗传和环境基础，这些变异是全球主要的。同样在IBERS，基因组多样性和植物育种小组应对农业可持续集约化的主要挑战：在提高产量的同时减少对环境的影响，特别是对以草原为主的系统。Flávio Santana博士自2006年以来一直是EmbRapa Trigo的植物病理学家。从那时起，他一直致力于鉴定来自巴西的棕褐色斑点病分离株。他还负责巴西几个州小麦稻瘟病和赤霉病的杀菌剂防治工作。在这个项目中，他将致力于抗和感褐斑病小麦品种群体的表型鉴定。里卡多·利马·德·卡斯特罗博士在农学方面有经验，重点是植物育种，主要在小麦育种、生物计量学和数量遗传学方面工作。在恩布拉帕小麦公司，他一直从事小麦育种工作。利马博士将鉴定小麦品种对真菌侵袭的抗性和易感性(准备品种清单及其遗传背景)，进行试验以测试抗性并帮助进行抗性表型鉴定。EmbRapa小麦是国家农业研究中心(EmbRapa)的一个分支机构，几名研究人员直接参与了与小麦相关的所有农业科学领域，如植物病理学、昆虫学、杂草防治、植物生理学、土壤营养，其中主要重点是小麦育种。这些设施配备齐全的温室、试验田和研究实验室。

Dr Anyela Camargo, will add her expertise in computer vision, systems biology, statistics and bionformatics to the project. She has been interested in the topic of plant disease monitoring since his time at Corpoica where she developed a tool for monitoring cotton crops. At Liverpool University she developed a system for the early detection of plant disorders. Later she was involved in the modelling of the gene network describing stress responses in Arabidopsis. Now, she is using the Brachypodium distachon plant model to identify genes associated to the resistance to blast rice.Prof. John Doonan is the director of the National Plant Phenomics Centre, he will add his expertise in genetics and molecular biology to help characterise, from the molecular point of view, the resistance to wheat to tan spot project.Dr Narcis Fernandez-Fuentes has over 10 years of experience in different aspects of Bioinformatics and has developed a number of databases and web-servers widely used by the scientific community. Dr Fernandez-Fuentes is currently leading the Bioinformatics research within IBERS' C3G ISPG grant program, part of which relates to the discovery of genes linked to a range of traits of interest by combining a range of 'omics datasets and developing integrative approaches.Professor John Draper has worked extensively at the interface between plant biology, analytical spectroscopy and computer science. Internationally he has been a pioneer in the use of metabolomics and machine learning to investigate the early stages of pathogen invasion in non-symptomatic host tissue. He has a long publication record in metabolomics, Brachypodium biology and plant defence. IBERS, at Aberystwyth University, is a major centre for public sector plant breeding for ryegrasses, forage and oats. IBERS has an in-house high performance computer (HPC) facility, Next Generation Sequencing labs and the UK's unique National Plant Phenomics Centre. The NPPC is based around automated non-destructive image analysis system running in a purpose-built glasshouse complex. The system is designed to cope with a range of plants, including small and large plants such as oats, wheat, barley, maize and Miscanthus. The NPPC provides a focus for trans-disciplinary research to facilitate the discovery of the genetic and environmental basis for variation in complex traits that underpin the major global. Also within IBERS, the Genome Diversity and Plant Breeding group addresses the major challenge of the sustainable intensification of agriculture: enhancing production whilst reducing environmental impacts, particularly with respect to grassland dominated systems.Dr Flávio Santana is a plant pathologist at Embrapa Trigo since 2006. Since then he is working in characterization of tan spot disease isolates from Brazil. He also is responsible as coordinator of a fungicide control of Wheat Blast and Fusarium Head Blight in several States in Brazil. In this Project he will be committed with the phenotyping of a population of resistant and susceptible wheat cultivars to tan spot disease.Dr Ricardo Lima de Castro has experience in agronomy with emphasis on plant breeding, working mainly in wheat breeding, biometrics and quantitative genetics. In Embrapa Wheat he has been working in wheat breeding. Dr. Lima will identify wheat cultivars resistant and susceptible to the fungus attack deliverable (preparation of a list of cultivars and their genetic background), carry out of the trials to test resistance and help in phenotyping of resistance.Embrapa Wheat is a branch of the Nacional Agricultural Research Center (Embrapa) where several researchers are directly involved in all area of agricultural science related to wheat, as plant pathology, entomology, weed control, plant physiology, soil nutrition, of which the main focus is wheat breeding. The facilities are well equipped with greenhouses, fields for trials and research labs.