Plant & Animal Genomes XI Conference

January 11-15, 2003
Town & Country Convention Center
San Diego, CA

Workshop: Arabidopsis
            

TOOLS FOR A. THALIANA FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS FROM GABI: SNPs AND FSTs

¹ Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Carl-von-Linneweg 10, D-50829 Koeln, GERMANY

The German plant genomics program, called GABI, is running since 1999. For obvious reasons, one of the model organisms is Arabidopsis thaliana, and a number of genomics tools have been created in the framework of the GABI program to support work with Arabidopsis by other groups. One of these tools is a large set of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) from 12 different A. thaliana accessions to accelerate mapping. Over 8,000 SNPs were identified by sequencing ESTs and selected genomic regions from the accessions. Another tool is a collection of T-DNA tagged lines that currently has seeds available for knock-out mutants of 8,230 genes, representing ca. 43% of the predicted total number of genes. The presentation will highlight some characteristics of the material offered, that we think should be known to everybody working with the material, and also will explain how access to the material is organized.