2. Past:
• Diversity study of reference collection
– G. Makunde
• Markers: disease, pest
• QTL for Drought
– ambiguous
– Repeating with a second population
3. Current
• 2 MARS populations
– Mexico
– Ethiopia / Colombia
– Phenotyping and genotyping on-going
• SNP platform with USDA-Beltsville
– ~1500 SNP
– Conversion from Ilumina to Kaspar
– Applying to 94 parentals from Colombia, 150 from
Africa
– Expanding on new chip with 6000 SNP
4. SOON
• Reference sequence from USDA
– Mapped SNP
– Disease resistance markers – to be mapped
– Convert selection from gel based to SNP
system
– Recognize relevant genes in close proximity?
5. Parallel actions
• “Establish” COP
– October 17-20, Malawi
– Building on African network
• PABRA: Pan African Bean Research Alliance
– Cooperation with US community
• BIC: Bean Improvement Cooperative
• Pursue IBP
– Ontology near done
– English > Spanish
– French pending
– Visit of Alberto Guerrero to CIMMYT ?
