Ian Bancroft

Project Leader

Crop Genetics

Contact details

ian.bancroft@jic.ac.uk

Research interests

The aim of the group is to develop a research programme to understand genome structure, function and evolution in the Brassicaceae, plus the genetic regulation of seed storage lipid accumulation and other traits relevant to sustainability of the UK oilseed rape crop. Further details are available through the group's home page.

Selected Publications

Trick M., Long Y., Meng J., Bancroft I. (2009)
Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) discovery in the polyploid Brassica napus using Solexa transcriptome sequencing
Plant Biotechnology Journal 7 (4) 334-346
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-7652.2008.00396.x

Recent Publications

Bancroft I., Morgan C., Fraser F., Higgins J., Wells R., Clissold L., Baker D., Long Y., Meng J., Wang X., Liu S., Trick M. (2011)
Dissecting the genome of the polyploid crop oilseed rape by transcriptome sequencing.
Nature Biotechnology 29 (8) 762-6
DOI:10.1038/nbt.1926

Brassica rapa Genome Sequencing Project Consortium T. H. E., Wang X., Wang H., Wang J., Sun R., Wu J., Liu S., Bai Y., Mun J. H., Bancroft I., Cheng F., Huang S., Li X., Hua W., Wang J., Wang X., Freeling M., Pires J. C., Paterson A. H., Chalhoub B., Wang B., Hayward A., Sharpe A. G., Park B. S., Weisshaar B., Liu B., Li B., Liu B., Tong C., Song C., Duran C., Peng C., Geng C., Koh C., Lin C., Edwards D., Mu D., Shen D., Soumpourou E., Li F., Fraser F., Conant G., Lassalle G., King G. J., Bonnema G., Tang H., Wang H., Belcram H., Zhou H., Trick M. (2011)
The genome of the mesopolyploid crop species Brassica rapa
Nature Genetics 43 (10) 1035-1039
DOI:10.1038/ng.919

O'Neill C. M., Baker D., Bennett G., Clarke J., Bancroft I. (2011)
Two high linolenic mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana contain megabase-scale genome duplications encompassing the FAD3 locus
Plant Journal 68 (5) 912-918
DOI:10.1111/j.1365-313X.2011.04742.x

O'Neill C. M., Morgan C., Hattori C., Brennan M., Rosas U., Tschoep H., Deng P. X., Baker D., Wells R., Bancroft I. (2011)
Towards the genetic architecture of seed lipid biosynthesis and accumulation in Arabidopsis thaliana
Heredity 108 (2) 115-123
DOI:10.1038/hdy.2011.54

Cho K., O'Neill C. M., Kwon S. J., Yang T. J., Smooker A. M., Fraser F., Bancroft I. (2010)
Sequence-level comparative analysis of the Brassica napus genome around two stearoyl-ACP desaturase loci.
Plant Journal 61 (4) 591-599
DOI:10.1111/j.1365-313X.2009.04084.x

Mun J. H., Kwon S. J., Seol Y. J., Kim J. A., Jin M., Kim J. S., Lim M. H., Lee S. I., Hong J. K., Park T. H., Lee S. C., Kim B. J., Seo M. S., Baek S., Lee M. J., Shin J. Y., Hahn J. H., Hwang Y. J., Lim K. B., Park J. Y., Lee J., Yang T. J., Yu H. J., Choi I. Y., Choi B. S., Choi S. R., Ramchiary N., Lim Y. P., Fraser F., Drou N., Soumpourou E., Trick M., Bancroft I., Sharpe A. G., Parkin I. A., Batley J., Edwards D., Park B. S. (2010)
Sequence and structure of Brassica rapa chromosome A3.
Genome Biology 11 (9) R94
DOI:10.1186/gb-2010-11-9-r94

Smooker A. M., Wells R., Morgan C., Beaudoin F., Cho K., Fraser F., Bancroft I. (2010)
The identification and mapping of candidate genes and QTL involved in the fatty acid desaturation pathway in Brassica napus
Theoretical and Applied Genetics 122 (6) 1075-1090
DOI:10.1007/s00122-010-1512-5

Stokes D., Fraser F., Morgan C., O'Neill C. M., Dreos R., Magusin A., Szalma S., Bancroft I. (2010)
An association transcriptomics approach to the prediction of hybrid performance
Molecular Breeding 26 (1) 91-106
DOI:10.1007/s11032-009-9379-3

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