Project title
Genetic diversity of Australian wine grapevine germplasm
Collaborators and funding
The Australian Wine Research Institute (AWRI) with Industry partners to access to grapevine tissue samples
Funding is provided by Wine Australia, Bioplatforms Australia
Contact(s)
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Markus Herderich, The University of Adelaide, markus.herderich@adelaide.edu.au.
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Anthony Borneman, The Australian Wine Research Institute, anthony.borneman@awri.com.au.
Project description and aims
Grapevine cultivars can be unequivocally typed by both physical differences (ampelography) and basic genetic tests. However, due to their very similar characteristics, the identification of clones within a cultivar relies on the accurate tracing of supply records to the point of origin. Whole genome sequencing (WGS) provides the most highly detailed methodology for defining grapevine cultivars and more importantly, this can be extended to differentiating clones within those cultivars. WGS is therefore being performed on grapevine germplasm from across Australia to categorise the genetic variation present in this important crop.
How is ABLeS supporting this work?
This work is supported through the production bioinformatics scheme provided by ABLeS. The supports includes unlimited temporary storage on scratch, 1 TB permenant storage and 50 KSUs per quarter.
Expected outputs enabled by participation in ABLeS
Outputs will be published in peer-reviewed journals and reference assemblies submitted to appropriate public repositories for use by the wider community.
These details have been provided by project members at project initiation. For more information on the project, please consult the contact(s) or project links above.