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| Title | Photosynthesis Breeding: The functional analysis of photosynthesis traits and genes to improve plant performance. |
| Group | Genetics, Laboratory of |
| Project type | thesis |
| Credits | 18 / 36 |
| Supervisor(s) | Roel van Bezouw
Joost Keurentjes Mark Aarts |
| Examiner(s) | Mark Aarts, Joost Keurentjes |
| Contact info | roel.vanbezouw@wur.nl |
| Begin date | 2020/01/01 |
| End date | 2021/01/01 |
| Description | In recent years, the genetic yield potential of many key crops, such as soy, maize, rice and wheat, has stagnated. Photosynthesis is the last trait not improved by plant breeding and as such holds great potential still to improve agricultural output in plants.
To be able to phenotyping photosynthesis, high throughput phenotyping facilities are or have been in development at the Wageningen University and through these, we found several promising QTLs in different genetic mapping population types. Through techniques like confirmation mapping, CRISPR-cas9, transgenic complementation and advanced phenotyping we now aim to unravel the mechanisms and causal allelic variation. Work includes the production with transgenics, bioinformatics, QTL mapping, mutant analysis and analyses in R. For BSc and MSc students. |
| Used skills | Genetic mapping, mutant analysis, CRISPR-cas9, some bioinformatics, experimental design.
Genomic and phenomic analyses. |
| Requirements | A sound understanding of (plant) genetics, preferably obtained through GEN-30306 and ABG-30306.
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