Welcome to innes lab!

Innes Lab is a Genome Research Framework hosted by Indiana University Bloomington.It colaborates research amoung various research groups working on genome.This framework originated from ''Comparative Analysis of Legume Genome'.This project is funded by the NSF Plant Genome Research Program, and involves a close collaboration among five research labs:

  • Innes lab at Indiana University

  • Young lab at the University of Minnesota St. Paul campus

  • Doyle lab at Cornell University

  • Saghai-Maroof lab at Virginia Tech University

  • Roe lab at the University of Oklahoma

Current Research at Indiana University

This NSF-funded project uses comparative genomics to investigate the process of genome restructuring following polyploidization in plants, particularly in the important crop plant soybean and its relatives in the Glycine genus. We will determine the corresponding approximately 1 megabasepair intervals from each of six legume taxa, as well as the duplicated regions in the polyploid members (12 intervals in total). The genomic interval to be sequenced contains several commercially important disease resistance (R) genes in soybean, and contains both rapidly rearranging and relatively stable chromosomal blocks. These analyses will address fundamental questions regarding genome evolution on both short (<100,000 years) and long (>50 million years) time scales, as well as questions regarding the evolution of R genes. This sequence collection will also facilitate identification of conserved promoter elements and non-coding RNAs. All sequence data, physical maps, and analyses will be made publicly available through this web-site.