Genoplante: The “winter oilseed rape” program

Abstract

The French plant genome initiative GENOPLANTE, associating public research and private companies involved in research for agriculture breeding or agrochemicals , supported several projects in oilseed rape genomics. Some of them intensively used Arabidopsis resources. Beside applied projects including gene cloning or QTL identification, GENOPLANTE succeeded in establishing a set of biological and bioinformatics resources available for the genetic improvement of this crop.