Institution:
Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia on behalf of the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension Service and University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc.Budget ID:
1238Project ID:
340Report BID:
State:
AlabamaRegion:
Southeast (GA, FL, AL)State Group:
SE.G.AL-02Project Fiscal Year:
2013Category:
Breeding/Genetics/BiotechReport Type:
Report Received Date:
Investigator:
PatersonProject NPB Budget:
$5,001Most plants share a largely-common set of genes, and gene functions change only very slowly. Using information from well-studied botanical models, the functions of perhaps half of the estimated 30,000 peanut genes might be deduced, once we understand the gene-by-gene relationships among these genomes. Using methods that we pioneered (Paterson et al., 2010; Tang et al., 2008), our objective is to 'align' key segments and chromosomes of peanut to those of such models, providing the means to begin to deduce functions of peanut genes based on knowledge from well-studied plants.