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Research Project: Conservation and Utilization of Temperate-Adapted Fruit, Nut, and Other Specialty Crop Genetic Resources

Location: National Clonal Germplasm Repository

Title: Enabling a deeper dive into large scale analyses through collaboration between the Corvallis genebank and GDR/GDV/Breeding Insight

Author
item Bassil, Nahla
item Bushakra, Jill
item JUNG, SOOK - Washington State University
item MAIN, DORRIE - Washington State University
item HUMANN, JODI - Washington State University
item SHEEHAN, MOIRA - Cornell University
item HULSE-KEMP, AMANDA - North Carolina State University
item SANDERCOCK, ALEX - Cornell University
item ZHAO, DONGYAN - Cornell University
item BEIL, CRAIG - Cornell University
item MENGIST, MOLLA - North Carolina State University
item IORIZZO, MASSIMO - North Carolina State University

Submitted to: Plant and Animal Genome Conference Proceedings
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: 11/19/2024
Publication Date: N/A
Citation: N/A

Interpretive Summary: None

Technical Abstract: The USDA-ARS National Clonal Germplasm Repository in Corvallis, Oregon, maintains genetic resources of many temperate fruits and nuts including strawberry and blueberry. In addition to acquiring, preserving, evaluating, characterizing and freely distributing these valuable resources, sharing the resulting information about these accessions globally is an integral part of our mission. We have partnered with developers of the Genome Database for Rosaceae (GDR, https://www.rosaceae.org/) and the Genome Database for Vaccinium (GDV, https://www.vaccinium.org/) at Washington State University, and with the USDA-ARS Breeding Insight Initiative at Cornell University to increase our available resources and ability to upload data that our GRIN-GLOBAL database was not designed to hold. In this presentation, we summarize our progress towards genotypic characterization of our strawberry and blueberry collections, as well as curating and making available phenotype and genotype data for strawberry. We also present a strawberry and a blueberry Crop Ontology we have developed with input from crop researchers and breeders mostly from North America. Public availability of phenotypic and genotypic data in GDR, GDV, and GRIN-GLOBAL will allow easy access to this data for use in informed selection of useful accessions and in genome-wide association studies. Crop Ontology will enable digital capture and trait data integration across locations and projects.