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ACPFG Structure RESEARCH FOCUS GROUPS Drought Salt Nutrients Boron Cold and Frost BOARD MANAGEMENT EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT GROUP TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS RESEARCH SUPPORT ALIGNED PROGRAMS Technology Platforms Bioinformatics Positional Cloning Transformation Systems Metabolomics Transcriptomics Proteomics Antibody Production In situ Analyses Promoters Isolation Mutant Populations Genomic Resources Research Support Information Technology Intellectual Property Regulatory Compliance Education Communication Commercialisation Finance Aligned Programs Grain Quality Nitrogen Use Efficiency Barley Transgenesis 8 2007 ACPFG ANNUAL REPORT
ACPFG Nodes NT Qld WA SA NSW Vic Tas The University of Adelaide The Waite Campus is Australia’s largest crop research centre with extensive teaching and research activities as well as various breeding programs. For the ACPFG, close links to the Waite barley and wheat breeding programs have been important in accessing key germplasm and providing delivery mechanisms for research outcomes. In Adelaide, the ACPFG has facilities for plant production and screening. Other activities include the transformation of various cereals and model plants, germplasm screening and evaluation, genetic analysis, positional cloning, protein expression and structural analysis, antibody production and the construction and screening of large insert libraries. The Adelaide node also houses all support capabilities including communication and education, intellectual property and commercialisation, business and financial management, information technology and administration. These support capabilities are accessed by various related research programs within the Plant Genomics Centre. The University of Queensland The University of Queensland node has developed a highquality bioinformatics capability for ACPFG and provides bioinformatics support for research projects across the organisation. ACPFG in Queensland is developing internal biological databases and is working with national and international partners to develop large-scale database infrastructure. In the future, there will be an increasing emphasis on integrating advanced bioinformatics strategies with the abundant data being produced. The University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne node has access to current functional genomics technologies through the Victorian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics. These technologies include proteomics, metabolomics, glycomics and bioinformatics which are needed to support high throughput analysis. ACPFG’s research team at the University of Melbourne is using these technologies to study responses to different abiotic stresses in cereals, such as drought, salinity, frost, mineral deficiencies and toxicities, aiming to identify novel mechanisms of stress adaptation and tolerance. The DPI at La Trobe University ACPFG’s DPI node is housed in the Victorian Agri-Biosciences Centre at the La Trobe University R&D Park in Melbourne. The Centre includes nodes of the Victorian Microarray Technology Consortium, the Victorian Bioinformatics Consortium and the Victorian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics, as well as the headquarters for the Molecular Plant Breeding CRC. This gives ACPFG scientists access to a comprehensive suite of technology platforms for plant genome and transcriptome analyses. These include: four complementary microarray systems; a large capacity in ultrahigh throughput DNA sequencing and genotyping, with both capillary electrophoresis and picoplate pyrosequencing systems; as well as capacity in wheat transgenesis. Underpinning this is an advanced bioinformatics platform for data mining and integration from genome to phenome. These facilitate the DPI node’s role in determining mechanisms of abiotic stress tolerance in indigenous and Antarctic extremophile grasses. 2007 ACPFG ANNUAL REPORT 9
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