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The African Orphan Crops Consortium (AOCC) on 3rd December 2013, launched the African Plant Breeding Academy to help improve the livelihoods of Africa’s smallholder farmers and their families, reduce hunger and boost Africa’s food supply.
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Unique Opportunity for AOCC
--- Biological Big Data & Global Collaboration
Xu XunExecutive Director of BGI Research
‘Omics’ data Environments Modeling
Single Gene
Multiple Gene
Single Gene
Multiple Gene
Phenotypes
Different combinations
What happen 5 years from now?
Moore’s law in Biology: Big Data Challenge and opportunity
3
Road map from Genome to Field
Agriculture
kung pao chickenPeking Duck
Mapo toufu
Cabbagecucumber
oyster
“taste good, sequence it!”
Any species at the dinner menu should be sequenced!
Industry
“Useful, sequence it!”
Silk and silkworm Oil and castor bean
Cloth and cotton
Any species at the industrial use should be sequenced!
Fun
“look cute, sequence it!”
Any endanger species; any Evolutionary/Scientifically important species should be sequenced!
14 crops
70 vegetables
39 animals
Agricultural Genomes
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From genome paper to seeds and yield --- demo case in foxtail millet
Improve the phenotype by Whole Genome Selection
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Select the right parents for heterosis
Yield: 9-12 t/ha; Traditional cultivars: 3-4 t/ha. Only need
1/2 of the water of Corn. Its drought tolerance can even adapted to desert region
Non-shattering cultivar
Hybrid F1
Backcrossing
Non-shattering super rice
Targeted Genome Improvement by Genome-Wide-Selection for Chinese Super Rice
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Digital Breeding in Supercomputer
Breeding purpose
Resources
Markers and the relationship between markers and traits
Breeding process
Markers based selection
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Global Collaboration--- BGI’s genes since its beginning
Why BGI was founded? Only for participate 1% HGP project
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Global Collaboration--- BGI’s genes since its beginning
10% of Hapmap
Leading role in the 1000 project
AOCC today, and 1 year later
List of plans Publications Seeds
Global Collaboration is the Bridge