International Brassica SNP Consortium

International Brassica SNP Consortium

The SNPs have been extracted from, or validated in, 80 lines from B. napus, four lines from B. oleracea, and four lines from B. rapa, and are thus designed to work well in any Brassica A or C genome species. One can expect that the highest number of SNPs will be polymorphic in B. napus germplasm. Up to 16 independent sources of SNPs were provided by the International Brassica SNP Consortium and considered in SNP selection. These data sets are derived from greater than 80 Brassica lines and include both transcriptome and genomic next-generation sequence data. Over 13,000 SNPs were validated by multiple laboratories to ensure the efficacy of the independent SNP discovery pipeline. The Community has developed a cluster file for this product with primary contributions to the cluster file development coming from TraitGenetics, GmbH and Agriculture and Agrifood Canada. Add-On Content can be supplemented on this array for up to 30,000 additional markers for a truly customized Brassica genotyping array.