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projects : technical : polling projectPolling ProjectSociety Awarded £5000 Grant For Polling Project Following an application to the Genesis Faraday call for SPARK awards, the British Limousin Cattle Society through its research base partner will receive a project grant of £5000 aimed at improved DNA testing to develop polled Limousin cattle. The SPARK project will work with the polling group of the BLCS to identify a set of markers that reliably predict the polled genotype, and establish a follow on project to attempt to identify the gene and “causitive” mutation controlling the polled condition in cattle. In the long term selection for polled will be most effectively achieved through knowledge of the gene and the specific functional mutation controlling the trait. As part of the research the research partner and Limousin breeders will work together to identify cattle that are carriers of the polled gene in both homozygous and heterozygous form and animals that are horned. It is hoped that data gathered from the project will help to deliver a commercial test to Limousin breeders. Dr John Williams is the Research Partner in this project. He has 25 year research experience in molecular genetics with over 220 publications. He is a member of the International Bovine Genome Sequencing Technical Committee and Steering Committee member of the International Bovine BAC Mapping Consortium. |
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