Bread wheat is grown on over 95% of wheat-growing areas and its sequence holds the key to genetic improvements that will allow growers to meet the increasing demands for high-quality food and feed produced in an environmentally sensitive, sustainable, and profitable manner. Further, because of its recent history, hexaploid wheat is a very good model to study polyploidy, a driving force for plant genome evolution.
The IWGSC was established by a group of plant scientists, breeders, and growers dedicated to sequencing the wheat genome to enhance our knowledge of the structure and function of the wheat genome. By gaining increased understanding of the biology of agronomically important traits and deploying state-of-the-art molecular tools, plant scientists and breeders will be able to accelerate wheat improvement to meet the challenges of the 21st century. The Consortium is committed to ensuring that the sequence of the wheat genome and the resulting DNA-based tools are available for all to use without restriction.
URL:
www.wheatgenome.org
www.isgtw.org/?pid=1000969
Coordinating Committee Members:
USA:
Kansas State University; Kansas Wheat Commission; USDA-ARS; Michigan State University, Institute for Genomic Research; University of Georgia; University of California-Davis; Eversole Associates; Washington State University; North Dakota State University; Cornell University; Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
India:
Murdoch University; Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics
Canada:
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
China:
Key Lab of Crop Germplasm & Biotechnology (MOA), China/Institute of Crop Sciences, CAAS
Czech Republic:
Institute of Experimental Botany
France:
INRA; CNRGV-INRA; URGV-INRA; Cereales Vallee; BIOGEMMA
India:
Punjab Agricultural University
Italy:
CRA Genomic Research Centre; Department of Agroenvironmental Sciences and Technology
Japan:
Kihara Institute for Biological Research, Yokohama City University
Switzerland:
University of Zurich
Turkey:
Sabanci University
UK:
John Innes Centre
