PAG-VI: SUGARCANE MOLECULAR MARKER RESEARCH AT CSIRO IN AUSTRALIA: AN UPDATE
Plant & Animal Genome VI Conference
Town & Country Hotel, San Diego, CA, January 18-22, 1998.
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SUGARCANE MOLECULAR MARKER RESEARCH AT CSIRO IN AUSTRALIA: AN UPDATE
LYNNE MCINTYRE
CSIRO Tropical Agriculture, 306 Carmody Rd, St Lucia, QLD 4067, AUSTRALIA
Sugarcane molecular marker research at CSIRO is directed towards 3 main goals.
To assist sugarcane breeders in their selection of parents for crossing.
To assist sugarcane breeders more efficiently select superior lines/varieties.
To better understand the sugarcane genome.
To these ends, CSIRO collaborates extensively with the sugarcane breeding programs of BSES and CSR Ltd., in addition to marker laboratories at BSES, University of Queensland and Southern Cross University, and overseas. Specifically, we have projects aimed at measuring selfing levels in sugarcane crosses, measuring genetic diversity and correlating diversity and performance, rapid and efficient fingerprinting using non-radioactive techniques for hybrid or germplasm verification, mapping in Erianthus and sugarcane, trait tagging in Erianthus and sugarcane, development of user-friendly PCR-based markers, assessment of genetic diversity in Old World and New World Erianthus germplasm collections, and, isolation and localisation of repeated sequences from Erianthus and sugarcane. Current progress and future plans in these areas will be discussed.
Plant & Animal Genome VI Conference