Project description:In this project we developed a data resource based on a historical collection of 209 two-row European spring barley genotypes. The population is representative of pan-European breeding progress across the years from 1830 to 2014. The dataset comprises gene expression data generated by RNA-sequencing data of six different tissues across a range of developmental stages. This submission contains the peduncle tissue samples.
Project description:In this project we developed a data resource based on a historical collection of 209 two-row European spring barley genotypes. The population is representative of pan-European breeding progress across the years from 1830 to 2014. The dataset comprises gene expression data generated by RNA-sequencing data of six different tissues across a range of developmental stages. This submission contains the inflorescence tissue samples.
Project description:In this project we developed a data resource based on a historical collection of 209 two-row European spring barley genotypes. The population is representative of pan-European breeding progress across the years from 1830 to 2014. The dataset comprises gene expression data generated by RNA-sequencing data of six different tissues across a range of developmental stages. This submission contains the root tissue samples.
Project description:In this project we developed a data resource based on a historical collection of 209 two-row European spring barley genotypes. The population is representative of pan-European breeding progress across the years from 1830 to 2014. The dataset comprises gene expression data generated by RNA-sequencing data of six different tissues across a range of developmental stages. This submission contains the crown tissue samples.
Project description:In this project we developed a data resource based on a historical collection of 209 two-row European spring barley genotypes. The population is representative of pan-European breeding progress across the years from 1830 to 2014. The dataset comprises gene expression data generated by RNA-sequencing data of six different tissues across a range of developmental stages. This submission contains the grain tissue samples.
Project description:In this project we developed a data resource based on a historical collection of 209 two-row European spring barley genotypes. The population is representative of pan-European breeding progress across the years from 1830 to 2014. The dataset comprises gene expression data generated by RNA-sequencing data of six different tissues across a range of developmental stages. This submission contains the spikelet tissue samples.
Project description:In the last century, breeding programs have traditionally favoured yield-related traits, grown under high-input conditions, resulting in a loss of genetic diversity and an increased susceptibility to stresses in crops. The European Heritage Barley collection (ExHIBiT) was assembled to explore the genetic diversity in European barley focusing on Northern European accessions. ExHIBiT consists of 363 spring-barley accessions, focusing on two-row type. The collection consists of landraces (~14%), old cultivars (~18%), elite cultivars (~66%) and accessions with unknown breeding history (~2%), with 70% of the collection from Northern Europe. Based on 50k iSelect single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) array data, the population structure of the ExHIBiT collection was explored. Power analysis established a representative core collection of 230 genotypically and phenotypically diverse accessions. The effectiveness of this core collection for conducting statistical and association analysis was explored by undertaking genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for several phenotypic traits, such as flowering time.
Project description:Chevallier is a heritage english landrace of barley first planted in 1820 while Tipple is modern cultivar of barley released in 2004. Pseudomonas strains were isolated from the rhizospheres of the two varieties and 22 and 20 of the most phylogenetically distinct ones were sequenced to find out the difference in genotypes preferentially selected in the rhizospheres of the two cultivars.
Project description:The Afrikaner population of South Africa are the descendants of European colonists who started to colonize the Cape of Good Hope in the 1600s. In the early days of the colony, mixed unions between European males and non-European females gave rise to admixed children who later became incorporated into either the Afrikaner or the “Coloured" populations of South Africa. Differences in ancestry, social class, culture, sex ratio and geographic structure led to distinct characteristic admixture patterns in the Afrikaner and Coloured populations. The Afrikaner population has a predominant European composition, whereas the Coloured population has more diverse ancestries. Genealogical records previously estimated the contribution of non-Europeans into the Afrikaners to be between 5.5%-7.2%. NB two individuals withdrew consent so this data contains only 75 individuals as compared to the 77 cited in the article.