£1.5m for wheat breeding research

"A £1.5 million grant for research into the next generation of molecular markers in wheat has been awarded to Professor Keith Edwards and Dr Gary Barker of the University of Bristol. The grant is part of a £7 million LoLa (Longer and Larger) award from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)....The wheat genome data has been made publicly available via EMBL/GenBank and CerealsDB for analysis and application. Open access release of the data was a condition of the original BBSRC support for this project....The award to Professor Edwards and Dr Barker follows on from their recent, widely reported, announcement of the first public release of sequence covering 95 per cent of the wheat genome....The wheat genome data has been made publicly available via EMBL/GenBank and CerealsDB for analysis and application. Open access release of the data was a condition of the original BBSRC support for this project...."