This timeline is a look back at the hard work and collaborative efforts that made what was called "an impossible challenge" possible.
First discussion of wheat genome sequencing
Support letter from United States senator Pat Roberts
Pointed the way.
Safar et al., The Plant Journal 39, 960–968 Dissecting large and complex genomes: flow sorting and BAC cloning of individual chromosomes from bread wheat.
Catherine to Jaroslav: "I believe we can do it with chromosome BAC libraries for 2003 sequencing!"
Gill BS, Appels R, Botha-Oberholster A-M, Buell CR, Bennetzen JL, Chalhoub B, Chumley F, Dvorak J, Iwanaga M, Keller B, Li W, McCombie WR, Ogihara Y, Quetier F, and Sasaki T. 2004. A workshop report on wheat genome sequencing. The International Genome Research on Wheat Consortium. Genetics 168:1087-1096.
Kansas Wheat Commission and Kansas State University hire K. Eversole to set up a consortium.
First meeting at PAG 2005 to discuss strategies for sequencing the wheat genome
Wow! Who's that girl? OMG! Catherine Feuillet is there too!
Recognizing the problem - "how can we sequence a 17Gb hexaploid?"
2 sponsors, 3 institutes, 3 countries, 5 members
First contribution to the wheat genome sequencing: 4$
The first business meeting of the IWGSC was held in conjunction with the International Triticeae Mapping Initiative (ITMI) summer workshop in Bozeman, MT, USA, 29-31 May 2005. At this meeting, the white paper and the organizational documents were approved.
Kellye meets with the team at INRA
With INRA and Genoscope
1st meeting in EU for establishing COST action & ultimately TriticeaeGenome project - Amsterdam
Planting the seed of what is the next big thing!
Great idea
High-Resolution Radiation Hybrid Map of Wheat Chromosome 1D. Kalavacharla et al., Genetics. 2006 Jun; 173(2): 1089–1099.
Sr2 sequencing - allocation of 3B BAC - Rudi received from Catherine
Victor Harbour, Australia
Finalized in Victor Harbour, Australia at IWGSC business meeting
So many BAC clones to store in the freezers!
First time all 6 co-chairs are at same meeting - Tiberias, Israel
Thanks to visit of Forest Chumley
Chromosome 3B library
Francis Quetier: "I remember 2 young ladies named Catherine & Kellye who caught me in a meeting to get 2 M € from ANR to sequence the 3B chromosome. Dick Flavell and I thought, after having drunk various liquors, that sometime in the future some crazy guys will run a crazy idea -- sequencing a nightmare genome called breadwheat! Dreams are coming true with the IWGSC."
Launched in June 2008 in Clermont-Ferrand, France, the TriticeaeGenome project is a European project that mobilises 14 European research institutes and 2 industrial partners, from 9 different countries. The project will receive €5.3 million Euros in funding over a four-year period, from the 7th European Union Framework Programme (FP7). TriticeaeGenome project is designed to achieve significant progresses in Triticeae genomics and support efficient breeding of improved varities for the European agriculture.
Coupling amplified DNA from flow-sorted chromosomes to high-density SNP mapping in barley. Šimková et al., BMC Genomics 2008, 9:294.
The eighth IWGSC business meeting was held in conjunction with the International Wheat Genetics Symposium at the Brisbane Convention Center in Brisbane, Qld, Australia
A Physical Map of the 1-Gigabase Bread Wheat Chromosome 3B. Paux et al., Science, 2008. First time a paper on an IWGSC project was published in Science
They will lead the sequencing work of chromosome 6B
Golden Woman!
and starting work on chromosome 7A project. Gabriel Keeble-Gagnere
Clermont-Ferrand, France. C'est parti mon kiki!
(compared to many others…)
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