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Ian Bancroft

Project Leader

Crop Genetics

Contact details

ian.bancroft@bbsrc.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, 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 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

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
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