Japan Long-Term Visit: Screening and Fingerprinting of Vignaangularis Germplasm
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This award will support Dr. Thomas Lumpkin of Washington State                  University to collaborate with Dr. Michiharu Kobayashi for 17 months            at Kyoto University, Japan.  They will work on characterizing                   accessions of the azuki bean (Vigna angularis).  The project will               entail: 1) Bringing together samples of all 2000+ accessions in major           Japanese collections together with accessions from Korea and China              currently at Washington State University; 2) Creation of a subset of            accessions based on pod shatter resistance and bacterial stem rot               tolerance, and classification and cataloging of this subset based on            vegetative features and classical taxonomic criteria; and 3) Use of             isozyme profiles to identify (fingerprint) accessions in the subset.                                                                                            This cooperative project will provide Dr. Lumpkin access to the azuki           bean collections, together with the resources of Kyoto University, the          Japanese National Institute of Agrobiological Resources at Tsukuba, and         the Tokachi Agricultural Experiment Station in Hokkaido, Japan.  Azuki          is an important legume crop.  This project has the potential of                 providing critical background information for increasing production             potential in both the U.S. and Japan.
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{'Code': '8271', 'Text': 'LONG TERM VISITORS'}
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