Ian BancroftProject LeaderCrop GeneticsContact detailsResearch interestsThe 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, the genetic regulation of canopy architecture and other traits relevant to sustainability of the UK oilseed rape crop. Further details are available through the group's home page.Selected PublicationsTrick 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 PublicationsCho 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 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 Cheung F., Trick M., Drou N., Lim Y. P., Park J. Y., Kwon S. J., Kim J. A., Scott R., Pires J. C., Paterson A. H., Town C., Bancroft I. (2009) Comparative analysis between homoeologous genome segments of Brassica napus and its progenitor species reveals extensive sequence-level divergence Plant Cell 21 (7) 1912-28 DOI:10.1105/tpc.108.060376 Kim H., Choi S. R., Bae J., Hong C. P., Lee S. Y., Hossain M. J., Van Nguyen D., Jin M., Park B. S., Bang J. W., Bancroft I., Lim Y. P. (2009) Sequenced BAC anchored reference genetic map that reconciles the ten individual chromosomes of Brassica rapa BMC Genomics 10 432 DOI:10.1186/1471-2164-10-432 Mun J. H., Kwon S. J., Yang T. J., Seol Y. J., Jin M., Kim J. A., Lim M. H., Kim J. S., Baek S., Choi B. S., Yu H. J., Kim D. S., Kim N., Lim K. B., Lee S. I., Hahn J. H., Lim Y. P., Bancroft I., Park B. S. (2009) Genome-wide comparative analysis of the Brassica rapa gene space reveals genome shrinkage and differential loss of duplicated genes after whole genome triplication. Genome Biology 10 (10) R111 DOI:10.1186/gb-2009-10-10-r111 Shi J., Li R., Qiu D., Jiang C., Long Y., Morgan C., Bancroft I., Zhao J., Meng J. (2009) Unraveling the complex trait of crop yield with quantitative trait loci mapping in Brassica napus Genetics 182 (3) 851-61 DOI:10.1534/genetics.109.101642 Trick M., Cheung F., Drou N., Fraser F., Lobenhofer E. K., Hurban P., Magusin A., Town C. D., Bancroft I. (2009) A newly-developed community microarray resource for transcriptome profiling in Brassica species enables the confirmation of Brassica-specific expressed sequences BMC Plant Biology 9 50 DOI:10.1186/1471-2229-9-50 Trick M., Kwon S. J., Choi S. R., Fraser F., Soumpourou E., Drou N., Wang Z., Lee S. Y., Yang T. J., Mun J. H., Paterson A. H., Town C. D., Pires J. C., Pyo Lim Y., Park B. S., Bancroft I. (2009) Complexity of genome evolution by segmental rearrangement in Brassica rapa revealed by sequence-level analysis BMC Genomics 10 539 DOI:10.1186/1471-2164-10-539 O'Neill C., Morgan C., Kirby J., Tschoep H., Deng P., Brennan M., Rosas U., Fraser F., Hall C., Bancroft I. (2008) Six new recombinant inbred populations for the study of quantitative traits in Arabidopsis thaliana Theoretical and Applied Genetics 116 (8) 1183-1185 Suwabe K., Morgan C., Bancroft I. (2008) Integration of Brassica A genome genetic linkage map between Brassica napus and Brassica rapa Genome 51 169-176 |