Deliverables 2011-12

Ashok

1. Whole plant Transcriptomics and development of Digital Gene Expression in Casuarina
2. Gene discovery in Casuarina for Drought and Coppicing
3. Species specific markers in Casuarina
4. Diversity, TD-GD, in Casuarina

Nagabhushana

1. Establishing DNA Bank for Corymbia germplasm
2. Genome wide mining for SSR markers in Corymbia through Repeat Enrichment
3. Ascertaining the gene flow of Second generation materials in Eucalyptus
4. Framework Mapping of wood/pulp related yield genes in Casuarina

Neeraja

1. Estimation of out-crossing rate in Second generation materials
2. Facilitating Development of SSR markers in Corymbia

Prasad

1. SNP discovery and SNP genotyping for genes involved in drought and adaptive traits (ITC-CSIRO collaboration)
2. SNP genotyping for genes in growth related traits using high throughput platform in association mapping population (in-house)
3. Detection of SNPs for PY in Eucalyptus
4. Screening the validation population using informative SNPs
5. Study of effect of fertilizer application on methylationpattern on Eucalyptus camaldulensis genome.

Raj

1. Development and deployment of Integrated Selection Model for DNA markers with Morphological Traits
2. Development of Crop database in Eucalyptus.
3. Setting-up functional Data Center for Crop RND that handles Genome Sequence and Crop database
4. Publication - 2