BREAD: Fast breeding for slow crops: doubled haploids in cassava and banana

Published on 21 January 2014

Research Areas

Start Date: 1 July 2012 | End Date: 30 June 2013

This project aims to:

Produce doubled haploids in cassava and banana/plantain using centromere engineering
Produce Agrobacterium binary vectors to replace endogenous CENH3 with altered variants in cassava and banana
Create transgenic cassava and banana lines expressing altered CENH3 proteins in place of endogenous CENH3 (putative haploid inducers).
Cross putative haploid inducing lines to wild-type cassava and banana, and assay for haploid progeny

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