Dear Colleagues,
A few months ago, the US Rosaceae Genetics, Genomics and Breeding
Executive Committee, under the leadership of Gennario Fazio, began
discussing community initiatives. RosBREED: Enablling marker
assisted breeding in Rosaceae, arose from these discussions. As a
result of a conference call last week, a small committee was put
together to further develop our vision and goals for this community
project targeting submission to the fortcoming US Specialty Crop
Research Initiative. I agreed to lead the effort at this point and I
have tentatively agreed to PI the proposal, depending on the due
date. I want to thank the committee, especially Cameron Peace and
Jim Olmstead who had a late night last night, for preparing an
excellent outline for your review. Our goal was to ground the outline
solidly with a vision, mission and justification, yet also provide
sufficient detail on the objectives and approach so that you can
provide critique. We invite your comments and changes to the
attached outline. Please use track changes for your edits etc.
Upon reading the outline, you'll notice that under "Strategies to
achieve objective 1", our goal is to test the robustness of marker
trait associations over a wide range of germplasm (beyond the
populations in which they were first discovered). To achieve this
objective, I would like to ask for your help in compiling a list of
available marker - trait associations. We will use this list as an
in-house document from which we can select marker - trait
associations for the proposed pipeline. Thank you in advance for your help.
Both the outline and table are attached. I began adding to the table
to get it started. Unfortunately we are working on a very tight
deadline and so we would appreciate your comments, suggestions, and
Table additions by next Wed if possible.
We look forward to hearing from you and collaborating in any way possible.
Best regards, Amy
Dr. Amy Iezzoni
Professor
Department of Horticulture
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
telephone: (517) 355-5191 ext. 391
fax: (517) 353-0890
