The Seed Biotechnology Center at UC Davis and and Dr. Richard Michelmore, Director of the UC Davis Genome Center, are partnering with an industry consortium to develop microarray-based tools for DNA marker discovery.

With these tools approximately 25,000 lettuce genes will be simultaneously screened for diversity in breeding germplasm.

The resulting markers will be validated to develop high density maps to identify and manipulate loci linked to important traits in lettuce.

This project will directly benefit the lettuce industry by providing new tools (high throughput molecular markers, SNPs) to improve lettuce.

The Marker Discovery project is offering a Postdoctorate Fellowship.  For more information go to: sbc.ucdavis.edu