BREEDING INFORMATICS TO BENEFIT AGRICULTURE

Perform bioinformatics analyses and develop bioinformatics software focused on improving breeding tools. Data analysis will focus on next-generation sequence analysis with a focus on agriculturally important animal and crop systems in the southeast area, including polyploids such as peanut. The project will focus on improving breeding tools and references. Analysis and identification of quantitative trait locus (QTL) and candidate gene loci are expected to be additional objectives of this project.