PRJNA273563
1001 Genomes: A Catalog of Arabidopsis thaliana Genetic Variation
The 1001 Genomes Project was launched at the beginning of 2008 to discover the whole-genome sequence variation in 1001 accessions of the reference plant Arabidopsis thaliana. The resulting information is paving the way for a new era of genetics that identifies alleles underpinning phenotypic diversity across the entire genome and the entire species. Each of the accessions in the 1001 Genomes project is an inbred line with seeds that are freely available from the stock centre to all our colleagues. Unlimited numbers of plants with identical genotype can be grown and phenotyped for each accession, in as many environments as desired, and so the sequence information we collect can be used directly in association studies at biochemical, metabolic, physiological, morphological, and whole plant-fitness levels. The analyses enabled by this project will have broad implications for areas as diverse as evolutionary sciences, plant breeding and human genetics.