Resumen
- In the framework of its work plan for functional analysis of cereal genomes, the Génoplante consortium decided to construct a rice T-DNA insertional mutagenesis collection (Sallaud et al 2003). Rice was chosen as a model species because of its small genome and because of all the genomic resources available for this species (ESTs, genetic maps, complete sequence, etc.). The lines were produced in Cirad laboratories, and grown in Cirad and IRD greenhouses, in Montpellier, France. The present work carried out at CIAT as a collaboration with Génoplante consists in: (i) a systematical phenotypic evaluation of the mutant collection, with production of an associated phenotypic database, and (ii) the multiplication of seeds for the entire collection, for later distribution to all laboratories interested in rice functional genomics. We focus here on the first topic.