Location: Vegetable Crops Research
Project Number: 5090-21000-073-086-A
Project Type: Cooperative Agreement
Start Date: Sep 15, 2022
End Date: Aug 14, 2026
Objective:
Obj. 1 - Develop cost-effective genomic tools to advance breeding populations and integrate loci related to economically significant traits identified by stakeholders.
Obj. 2 – Using multi-parental and bi-parental populations to map location(s) of genes underlying economically important traits using an optimized genomic-assisted strategies from Obj 1.
Approach:
1. Identify single nucleotide polymorphisms and structural variants representative of genetic diversity in diverse germplasm and elite breeding lines;
2 – Conduct field trialing of genetic mapping populations created from crosses with elite breeding lines and landraces for economically important traits with complex genetic inheritance including resistance to root knot nematode.
