Wheat Research at TGAC

Wheat provides 20% of the calories to the growing human population with more agricultural land devoted to its production than any other crop. Wheat has a complex polyploidy genome of 17 Gb, five times bigger than human genome. At The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC), we are focused on decoding wheat genome and understanding how variation within and across genomes affects the plant and its interaction with the environment. TGAC is a leading institute in the areas of genomics and bioinformatics hosting science faculty, as well as the state of the art National Capability sequencing facility and High Performance Computing and partnering with variety of UK and international collaborators. On-going wheat projects at TGAC include 1) new assembly approaches to wheat reference genome and pan-genome 2) analyses of natural and induced diversity across thousands of wheat lines 3) monitoring and understanding the evolution of wheat-microbe interactions 4) generating novel decentralised infrastructures for access to wheat genomic data.