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The global biorenewable fuels industry, while expanding rapidly in both size and value, is nevertheless confronted with significant obstacles to future growth. Chief among these is the limited availability and cost of input agricultural feedstocks – particularly those based on food crops (e.g. corn starch, Canola oil and soybean oil) for ethanol or biodiesel production | The global biorenewable fuels industry, while expanding rapidly in both size and value, is nevertheless confronted with significant obstacles to future growth. Chief among these is the limited availability and cost of input agricultural feedstocks – particularly those based on food crops (e.g. corn starch, Canola oil and soybean oil) for ethanol or biodiesel production | ||
Castor meets all these criteria, and is particularly attractive as a novel source of biorenewable oil feedstocks for the liquid fuel transportation sector. In this project we propose to develop and use advanced genomics tools to develop the Castor plant (Ricinus communis L.) as a non-food source of biorenewable energy. The specific project objectives include completion of the Castor genome sequence to a high quality, as a prerequisite to developing expression arrays, whole genome tiling arrays and reverse-genetic resources that will accelerate development of the crop into the Ontario regional and national sectors. | Castor meets all these criteria, and is particularly attractive as a novel source of biorenewable oil feedstocks for the liquid fuel transportation sector. In this project we propose to develop and use advanced genomics tools to develop the Castor plant (Ricinus communis L.) as a non-food source of biorenewable energy. The specific project objectives include completion of the Castor genome sequence to a high quality, as a prerequisite to developing expression arrays, whole genome tiling arrays and reverse-genetic resources that will accelerate development of the crop into the Ontario regional and national sectors. | ||
'''3- Phaseolus Genomics for Improved Bio-Product Development | |||
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Relatively few nucleotide sequences are available for Phaseolus vulgaris (dry beans) in public databases like GenBank. The lack of genomic information for the dry bean is a major anomaly for such important crop species in the world and it represents an important opportunity for a Ontario genomics effort to have a major international impact. The long-term objectives of the work are to accelerate the rate of genetic improvement in dry beans by developing genomics resources and tools for genomics- assisted improvement of Phaseolus for bio-product development. In the current Study we are to focusing the genomics research in bean around five themes, namely: | |||
• Development of a draft genomic sequence for P. vulgaris | |||
• Identification of genes involved in resistance to a bacterial pathogen that causes bacterial blight, a major disease of bean throughout the world, | |||
• Characterization of genes that code for the phenylpropanoid pathway that results in an enormous variety of compounds with significant disease resistance, seed quality and nutraceutical importance, | |||
• Characterization of the genes that code for protein composition in bean, which is the major reason it is grown throughout the world, and | |||
• Determination of the economic consequences of bio-product demand for dry beans. |
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Research Outline :
1- Functional Analysis of SKP1 orthologs in Arabidopsis:
2-Castor as a Next-Generation Crop for the Biorenewable Chemical and Energy Sectors:
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