University of Hyderabad (UoH) has set up a repository of tomato genomics resources (RTGR) to generate and share materials, make databases, carry out elucidation of gene function, and use the research results to improve tomato production using modern genomics tools.
The main objective of the repository is to continue isolation and characterisation of tomato mutants using tilling and other upcoming techniques, to maintain and provide the tomato genomic resources to scientists and Ag-biotech industry in the country under intellectual property rights sharing basis, UoH said in a press release on Thursday.
In 2004, an international initiative was started to sequence tomato genome with an international consortium of scientist groups in a network named International Solanaceae Genome Project (SOL) for 10 years. The the department of biotechnology spearhead the project in India, it said.
