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USDA CSREES National Research Initiative 2005 Rosaceae Funded Projects


The 2005 USDA CREES NRI Plant Genome Program focussed on research projects that will advance our knowledge of the genome of Rosaceous plants, such as pome fruits, stone fruits, strawberry, brambles and related ornamentals. Download the Rosaceae progress reports presented at the 2008 NRI workshop at the Plant and Animal Genome Conference. Please go to the individual project page to find individual project reports.

The projects funded under this program are as follows:

PD and Co-PDs Organization Project Title

Albert G. Abbott
W. Vance Baird
Doreen Main
Gregory Reighard
Bryon Sosinski

Clemson
Clemson
Washington State
Clemson
NC State

 Peach physical mapping, peach BAC library construction, peach cDNA library generation, EST mapping, Prunus genome database development
Amy Iezzoni
Wayne Loescher
Dechun Wang
Esther van der Knapp

Michigan State
Michigan State
Michigan State
Ohio State

 Genomic Resources to Improve Fruit Size and Quality Traits in Cherry
Cameron Peace
Carlos Crisosto
Thomas Gradziel
Ann Callahan 		Washington State
UC Davis
UC Davis
USDA-ARS		 Candidate Genes for Fruit Softening in Prunus
Gayle Volk
Carlos Crisosto
Thomas Gradziel
Ann Callahan 		USDA-ARS Genetic Diversity of Wild Apple Accessions in the National Plant Germplasm System
James F. Hancock
Steve van Nocker
Dechun Wang
Kim Lewers		 Michigan State
Michigan State
Michigan State
USDA-ARS		 Identifying the Genes Associated with Day-Neutrality in Strawberries using QTL and Candidate Gene Approaches
Janet P. Slovin
Pablo D. Rabinowitz		 USDA-ARS
TIGR		 Increasing The Diversity of ESTs for Fragaria

John L. Norelli
Carole L. Bassett
Herbert S. Aldwinckle Robert E. Farrell, Jr.

USDA-ARS
USDA-ARS
Cornell
Penn State		 Functional Genomic Response of Apple to Fire Blight
Schuyler Korban
Jonathan E. Beever		 U. Illinois
U. Illinois		 High-Resolution Physical Mapping of the Apple Genome by BAC Fingerprinting
Thomas M. Davis
Kevin Folta
Phillip San Miguel		 U. New Hampshire
U. Florida
Purdue		 Gene Pair Haplotypes and Sequence Samples from Strawberry (Rosaceae): Multi-purpose, Transferable Resources for Genomics and Variety Improvement
Tia-Lynn Ashman
Kim Lewers		 U. Pittsburgh
USDA-ARS		 Gender Determination, the Key to Germplasm Utilization in Strawberry: Genetic Mapping and Colinearity with Peach, the Rosaceae Model System
Wenhao Dai
James A. Walla		 North Dakota State
North Dakota State		 Development of Segregating Populations for Molecular and Genetic Analyses of X-Disease in Chokecherry (Prunus virgininana L.)
Zhao-Bang Zeng North Carolina State Algorithms and Programs for Gene Expression QTL Analysis