TSEC-Biosys: A whole systems approach to bioenergy demand and supply
A project funded under the Towards a Sustainable Energy Economy (TSEC) initiative




Plant Crops Bioenergy Research UK

Genetic Resources

    Model Species  
  Brachypodium distachyon Sorghum bicolor Populus trichocarpa
Characteristics Temperate herbaceous grass with a C3 photosynthetic pathway Tropical grass with a C4 photosynthetic pathway

Temperate woody tree species with C3 photosynthetic pathway

Potential model for

Reed Canary grass and Switch Grass

Miscanthus Populus and Salix
Genome sequence

Underway (2007) - link

Early released data - link

Complete - link

Resources

  • Mapping populations

  • Molecular markers

  • QTL

  • Germplasm

  • Brachypodium.org - link

  • Brachypodium at Gramene - link

  • Molecular markers via Gramene - link

  • Brachiomics at Aberdeen University - link

  • Germplasm collection via Brachiomics at Aberdeen University - link

  • Accessions - link

  • The sorghum project at the Laboratory for Genomics and Bioinformatics - link

  • Sorghum at Gramene - link

  • Molecular markers via Gramene - link

  • Germplasm collection via Gramene- link

  • Sorghum at the comparative grass genomics centre - link

  • Popyomics - link

  • Association mapping populations - link

  • Molecular markers - link

 

Bioinformatics

  • Using IRGSP/TIGR rice genome assembly - link

  • The sorghum project - link

EST collections
  • The sorghum project - link

  • NCBI - link

  • Comparative grass genomics centre - link

Microarrays

   
Additional

 Additional plant genome links - link

 Switch grass

  • Sequence pending - link

Willow

  • High synteny with poplar genome (Hanley et al., 2007)

  • BEGIN: Developing resources - link

Comparative grass genomics

  • Gramene (comparative grass genomics) - link

  • JGI (phytozome) - link

  • Germplast Resources Information Network (GRIN) - link

Maize (further C4 model species)

  • Resources - link

  • Suggested co-linearity with Miscanthus (Hernndez et al., 2001)

Arabidopsis (the model plant)

 

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