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1) To update an oat community mailing
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2)
To
report on a meeting held in
3)
To
solicit a follow-up meeting at the next American Oat Workers conference.
4)
To
initiate discussion on a special topic: development of DART markers in oat.
The full contents
of this message are located here: http://oatnog.com/pag2006.htm
Oat Marker Meeting – Plant and Animal Genome
XIV –
A short
meeting was held to discuss status and future opportunities of oat molecular
markers. In attendance were: H. Rines,
N. Tinker, B. Rossnagel, P. Eckstein, S. Tuvesson, E.
Huttner, M. Sorrells, H. Ohm, S. Pederson, A. Kandikonda, L. Reddy, M. Humphreys, J. Anderson, G. Lazo, D. Matthews, JL. Jannink, R.
Phillips,
INRODUCTION: It was acknowledged that a major limiting
factor in oat research remaines the unavailability of
a large toolbox of markers that could be applied affordably in oat germplasm
for genetic studies and marker assisted breeding. New opportunities such as association
genetics will require community efforts, and it is of growing importance that
shared technologies, especially molecular markers, are available for
unrestricted use by the oat community.
Many markers have been developed and mapped in oat, but because they
belong to many different technologies, they are not always accessible to new
projects and new researchers. Access to
other shared technologies, such as ESTs, is equally
important. Delegates discussed various
ideas to improve this situation.
DArT: Initial discussion centered around the opportunity to develop DArT
markers in oat. DArT
is a technology developed by Cambia to promote both commercial and non-profit
use (http://www.bioforge.net/forge/entry.jspa?externalID=51&categoryID=4).
The
technology can be licensed directly from Cambia, or purchased through
commercial services such as
INVENTORY: Much of the remaining discussion at this
meeting can be summarized as updates. It
was suggested that it would be useful to structure these updates as a running
inventory of “where we are at” with respect to oat PCR markers and ESTs. This would
help to avoid duplication of efforts, and would direct us toward the right
authority when we have a specific need. To initiate this, Howard Rines has compiled a
list of literature on oat marker development, to which we have added informal
updates presented at this meeting, and other updates that followed when the
draft was circulated. We have compiled
these in a separate document that can be further updated as comments are
received:
http://oatnog.com/oatmarkerstatus.htm
Please
note: this document contains informal information that was discussed during and
after the meeting – in particular, information about who may be screening SSRs
from other species in oat. It will be
updated as needed.
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GRAINGENES: Gerry Lazo is our
contact person at GrainGenes (graingenes.org).
GrainGenes continues to do an excellent job in publishing community data
in oat, and in relating oat data to other data from small grains. Gerry is eager to work with anyone in the
community to make oat data public and easy to access. He is also willing to help with the
development of queries to access data from GrainGenes.
AMERICAN
OAT WORKERS CONFERENCE –