An Italian functional genomic resource for Medicago truncatula.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medicago truncatula is a model species for legumes. Its functional genomics have been considerably boosted in recent years due to initiatives based both in Europe and US. Collections of mutants are becoming increasingly available and this will help unravel the genetic control of important traits for many species of legumes.

Findings

Our report is on the production of three complementary mutant collections of the model species Medicago truncatula produced in Italy in the frame of a national genomic initiative. Well established strategies were used: Tnt1 mutagenesis, TILLING and activation tagging. Both forward and reverse genetics screenings proved the efficiency of the mutagenesis approaches adopted, enabling the isolation of interesting mutants which are in cours

SUBMITTER: Porceddu A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2633015 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature