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Needs of the Plant Research Community - a Dutch perspective

July 2, 2014

TransPLANT & Elixir-NL

Jan-Peter Rob Richard Gabino

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Plant breeding and beyond: basics

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Plant breeding and beyond: genetics

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Plant breeding and beyond: genetics

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Plant breeding and beyond: SELECTION

Selection of ● parents ● genetics ●  trait ● algorithm ● population ● environment ● market ●  legislation ●  consumer and more

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Plant breeding and beyond: example

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Plant breeding: aims

§ Yield, yield, yield ● more with less

§ Yield stability ● different environments

§ Disease resistance and abiotic stress tolerance § Quality § Input and environmental impact

●  fresh water ● Agrichemicals

§ (Marketability)

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Precision breeding

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Challenges

§ Polyploid crops § Huge genomes § Repeat content § Recombination § Protein function § QTL regions

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Precision Breeding in TransPLANT2020

§ Rationalization of selection decisions on all levels

§ Interoperability of data as accelerator of innovation ● HTP genotyping, HTP phenotyping ● Ontologies and standards ● Tools and management ● Networks

Rationalization = data interoperability

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Elixir-NL

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Mode of action Elixir-NL

§ Community based § Facilitator & organizer

●  cross fertilization ●  cross sectoral

(plant, food, animal,

red, white, blue, energy) ●  cross collaboration - ESFRI, other - academia - industry

§ Agenda setter

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as to prevent....

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Cells and Organs

Organism

Vision for TransPLANT2020 – Elixir-NL

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Vision for Elixir-NL - Transplant2020

Databases  (curated)  

Data    Sets  

(TranSmart)  

Pheno  Data  

TranSmart)  

 

Research  Blogs  

Any    Format  

Mul=ple  Analy=cs-­‐Enabling  Environment  (any  format)  

Research  Community  Confirma=onal  reading            (full  provenance)  

Interoperable  Exchange  Environment  (RDF)    

New  Insights  

Publica=on    

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Cells and Organs

Organism

Precision breeding in Transplant202

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Let’s do it.... Let’s go for TransPLANT 2020