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. Development of SSR in Casuarina
4. Diversity, TD-GD, Species specific markers in Casuarina

Nagabhushana and Neeraja

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

Neeraja

1. Estimation of out-crossing rate in Second generation materials
2. Facilitating Development of SSR markers in Corymbia
3. Establishing relationship between CAI and MAI in Euca and Casuarina

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. 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