ITAG
•Stephane Rombauts, Jeffrey Fawcett, Yves Van de Peer,
Department of Plant Systems Biology, VIB ; Department of
Molecular Genetics, University Gent, Technologiepark 927,
9052 Gent, Belgium
•Thomas Schiex, Céline Noirot, INRA - UR 875, France
•Jérôme Gouzy, UMR 441-2594 INRA-CNRS, France
• Manuel Spannagl, Gundlach Heidrun, Yu Wang, Remy
Bruggmann, Klaus Mayer, MIPS/IBI Inst. for Bioinformatics,
GSF Research Center for Environment and Health, Neuherberg,
Germany
•Anika Joecker, Asis Hallab, Heiko Schoof, Max Planck Institute
for Plant Breeding Research,Cologne, Germany
•Saloni Mathur1, Debasis Chattopadhyay2, Nagendra K.
Singh3 and Akhilesh K. Tyagi1, Indian Initiative on Tomato
Genome Sequencing, 1Inter-disciplinary Centre for Plant
Genomics, Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University
of Delhi, South Campus, New Delhi-110021, India;2National
Institute for Plant Genome Research, New Delhi-110067,
India; 3National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology,
Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi-110012,
India
•Maria Luisa Chiusano,Alessandra Traini, Nunzio D'Agostino,
Department of Soil, Plant, Environmental and Animal
Production Sciences, University of Naples "Federico II", Portici
(NA), Italy
•Erwin D. Datema, Mark W.E.J. Fiers, Roeland C.H.J. van Ham,
Plant Research International, Wageningen University and
Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
•Francisco Camara, Tyler Alioto, Roderic Guigo, Genome
Bioinformatics Laboratory GRIB -- IMIM/UPF/CRG, Barcelona,
Spain
•Ioannis Filippis, Sarah Butcher, James Abbot , Division of
molecular biosciences, Imperial College, London, UK
•Gerard Bishop, Division of Biology, Imperial College London,
UK
•Robert Buels, Lukas Mueller, Dept of Plant Breeding and
Genetics, Emerson Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853,
US
Chromosome 1 and 10
Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Tower Rd., Ithaca, NY 14853
Jim Giovannoni, Lukas Mueller, Joyce Van Eck, Zhangjun Fei, Julia Vrebalov
Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
Steven Tanksley, Yimin Xu, Nancy Eannetta
Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
80523 USA:
Stephen M. Stack, Lorinda K. Anderson, Lindsay A. Shearer, Suzanne M. Royer, Song-Bin
Chang
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Stephenson Research and Technology Center,
University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019 USA:
Bruce A. Roe, Mounir Elharam, Ying Fu, Axin Hua, Hongshing Lai, Shaoping Lin, Fares
Najar, Baifang Qin, Chunmei Qu, Ruihua Shi, Douglas White, James White, Liping Xhou,
Yanbo Xing, Keqin Yang, Ziyun Yao, Jing Yi
United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service, Robert W. Holley
Center, Tower Road, Cornell University campus, Ithaca NY 14853 USA:
Chromosome 2
1
Department of Plant Science, 2Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, 3Crop Functional
Genomics Center, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University,
Seoul, 151-921, Republic of Korea
Doil Choi1, Byung-Cheol Kang1, Byung Dong Kim1, Minkyu Park1, Seungill Kim1, Jongsun
Park2, Yong-Hwan Lee2, and Yang-Do Choi3,
1
Bioinformatics Research Center, 2Plant Systems Engineering Research Center, Korea
Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon, 305-806, Republic of Korea
Cheol-Goo Hur1, Sung-Hwan Jo1, Jungeun Kim1, Hyun-Jin Kim1, Suk-Yoon Kwon2, Dal-Hoe
Koo2 and Sanghyeob Lee2
Chromosome 3
State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology
and National Centre for Plant Gene Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Datun Road,
Beijing 100101, China
Changbao Li, Jianfeng Ren, Jiuhai Zhao, Liuhua Yan ,Hongling Jiang, Bao Wang,
Hongshuang Li, Fuyou Fu, Jinfeng Shi, Bingtang Chen, Shengxiong Huang, Jianru Zuo,
Zhukuan Cheng, Bin Han and Chuanyou Li
State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics and
Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and National Center for Plant Gene
Research, Beijing 100101, China
Biao Wang, Wenbo Long, Hongqing Ling, andYing Wang
Laboratory of Molecular and Developmental Biology, Institute of Genetics and
Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and National Center for Plant Gene
Research, Beijing 100080, China
Yongbiao Xue
Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, China
Di Liu, Liping Zeng, Gong Xiao, Jianjun Chen
National Center for Gene Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200233, China
Qi Feng, Danlin Fan, Lei Zhang, Yiqi Lu
Beijing Vegetable Research Center, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences,
Beijing 100097, China
Changbao Li
Institute of Plant Genetic Engineering, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao 266109,
China
Chengfeng Niu and Guoyong Jiang
Institute of Vegetables, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan, Shandong,
250100, China
Xincheng Zhou and Jianwei Gao
School of life sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610064, China
Shengxiong Huang and Yongsheng Liu
Chromosome 4
Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London SW7 1AZ, UK
Gerard J Bishop, Sarah Butcher, Rosa Lopez-Cobollo, Daniel Buchan, Ioannis Filippis and
James Abbott.
Division of Plant and Crop Sciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington,
Loughborough LE12 5RD, UK
Graham B. Seymour.
Genetics Programme, Scottish Crops Research Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee DD2 5DA,
UK
Glenn Bryan.
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK
Jane Rogers, Helen Beasley, Karen McLaren, Christine Nicholson, Claire Riddle.
Department of Molecular Sciences, University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center,
Memphis, USA.
David Nelson
Chromosome 5
Interdisciplinary Centre for Plant Genomics and Department of Plant Molecular Biology,
University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, 110 021, India
Saloni Mathur, Shailendra Vyas, Amolkumar U. Solanke, Rahul Kumar, Vikrant Gupta, Arun
K. Sharma, Paramjit Khurana, Jitendra P. Khurana and Akhilesh K. Tyagi
National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi, 110 067, India
Sarita, Parul Chowdhury and Debasis Chattopadhyay
NRC on Plant Biotechnology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, 110 012,
India
Rekha Dixit, Manju Singh, Archana Singh, Jitendra Kumar Pal, Awadhesh Pandit, Pradeep
Kumar Singh, Ajay Kumar Mahato, Vivek Dogra, Kishor Gaikwad, Tilak Raj Sharma,
Trilochan Mohapatra and Nagendra Kumar Singh
Chromosome 6
Centre for BioSystems Genomics, PO Box 98, 6700 AB Wageningen, The Netherlands
Willem Stiekema and René Klein Lankhorst
Wageningen University, Laboratory of Genetics, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB
Wageningen, The Netherlands
Dora Szinay, Song-Bin Chang, and Hans de Jong
Wageningen University, Laboratory of Plant Breedings, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB
Wageningen, The Netherlands
Richard Visser
Plant Research International, Business Unit Bioscience, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB
Wageningen, The Netherlands
Sandra Smit, Erwin Datema, Elio Schijlen, Jan van Haarst, Sander Peters, Marjo van
Staveren, Marleen Henkens, Paul Mooyman, Thamara Hesselink, Jose van de Belt and
Roeland C.H.J. van Ham
Chromosome 7
Chromosome 8
Kazusa DNA Research Institute, 2-6-7 Kazusa-kamatari, Kisarazu, Chiba 292-0818, Japan
Shusei Sato, Hideki Hirakawa, Takakazu Kaneko, Erika Asamizu, Yasukazu Nakamura and
Satoshi Tabata
National Institute of Vegetable and Tea Science, NARO 360 Kusawa, Ano, Tsu, Mie 5142392, Japan
Hiroyuki Fukuoka and Satomi Negoro
Chromosome 9
Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (CSIC-UPV), Ciudad Politecnica de la
Innovación, escalera 8E, Ingeniero Fausto Elios s/n,46022 Valencia, Spain
Pierre Pericard, Sonia Osorio, and Antonio Granell
Universidad de Malaga, Campus Teatinos, Malaga, Spain
Miguel Angel Botella
Sistemas Genomicos, Parque Tecnológico de Valencia, Ronda G. Marconi, 6 ,46980 Paterna
(Valencia), Spain
Vicky Fernandez and Sheila Zuñiga,
Centre de Regulacio Genomica. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Dr. Aiguader, 88, E-08003
Barcelona , Spain
Ramon Gonzalez, Francisco Camara and Roderic Guigó
Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Nexus II Building, c/ Jordi Girona, 29, 08034
Barcelona, (Spain)
Modesto Orozco, Xavier Pastor and David Torrents,
Chromosome 11
Key Laboratory of Horticultural Crops Genetic Improvement of Ministry of Agriculture, SinoDutch Joint Lab of Horticultural Genomics Technology, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers,
Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China.
Dongyu Qu, Yongchen Du, Jianchang Gao, Yanmei Guo, Xiaoxuan Wang, Zhiqi Jia, Ying Li,
Jun He, Zhonghua Zhang and Sanwen Huang
BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China
Jun Wang, Dongyuan Liu and Yuanyuan Ren
National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University,
Wuhan 430070, China.
Junhong Zhang and Zhibiao Ye
Department of Vegetable Science, College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China
Agricultural University, No. 2 Yuanmingyuan Xi Lu, Haidian District, Beijing 100193, PR
China.
Wencai Yang
College of Horticulture, South China Agricultural University, 510642 Guangzhou, China.
Guoping Wang
High-tech Research center, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan 250000,
China.
Guangcun Li
Chromosome 12
Bioinformatics and Genome Analyses
Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Tower Road, Cornell University campus,
Ithaca NY 14853 USA:
Robert M.. Buels, Naama Menda, Aureliano Bombarely, Isaak Y. Tecle, Thomas York and
Lukas A. Mueller
Institute of Plant Genetics – National Research Council, Res. Div. Portici Via Universita'
133 - P.co Gussone, 80055 Portici, Italy
Silvana Grandillo
Keygene N.V., Agro Business Park 90, 6708 PW Wageningen, The Netherlands
Marco van Schriek, Richard Feron, Jan van Oeveren, Peter de Heer, Lorena daPonte, Saskia
Jacobs-Oomen, Mike Cariaso, Robert Bogden, Marcel Prins, Michiel van Eijk, Antoine
Janssen and Mark van Haaren
454 Life Sciences, a Roche company, 15 Commercial Street, Branford, CT 06405, US
Michael Egholm and James Knight
RocheApplied Science, D-82377 Penzberg, Germany
Marcus Droege
This work was supported by:
This work was supported by:
The United States National Science Foundation (NSF), The State Key Laboratory of
Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy
of Sciences; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC);
the Department for the environment food and rural affairs (DEFRA); The Scottish
Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department (SEERAD); the European
Union (FP6 Integrated Project EU-SOL PL 016214); the Department of
Biotechnology, Government of India; the Indian Council of Agricultural Research,
New Delhi; the Italian Ministry of Agriculture, Agronanotech project; the Italian
Ministry of Research, FIRB project; the Centre for BioSystems Genomics (CBSG)
which is part of the Netherlands Genomics Initiative / Netherlands Organisation for
Scientific Research; Fundación Genoma España; Cajamar; FEPEX; Fundación
Séneca; ICIA; IFAPA; Fundación Manrique de Lara; United States Department of
Agriculture - National Research Institute (USDA-NRI); United States Department of
Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS); the Chinese Ministry of
Agriculture (“948” Program: 2007-Z5); the Chinese Ministry of Science and
Technology (2004CB720405, 2006CB101907, 2007DFB30080); National Natural
Science Foundation of China (36171319) to S. Huang; the China Postdoctoral Science
Foundation (20070420446) to Z. Zhang.
Granell and Botella secured funding and coordinated tasks; Osorio, Fernandez and
Zuñiga, selected and confirmed BACs, obtained Sanger and SOLID sequence and
pretreatment of sequences; Guigo, Camara and Gonzalez, annotation as part of iTAG
and RNAseq bioinformatics; Torrents, Pastor, Pericard and Orozco next gen assembly
and analysis.
Funding from ESPSOL project: and EUSOL Project: EU framework six.
Author list UK
(FISH – ITAG collaborations in common with many groups, Hans De Jong, Steve Stack
etc…. Klaus Mayer etc…)
Acknowledgements
UK funding
other
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