Mr Gary Ablett BSc(Carleton), MSc(UQ), GradDipEd(QUT), GradDipBiotech(QUT) 

Gary is currently involved in an international programme to develop SNP's for Marker
Assisted Selection in Wheat Breeding and for variety identification. Results will be
shared by all participants and used to map genetic traits. 

Gary is currently involved in programmes sponsored by GRDC and the Molecular Plant
Breeding CRC to develop SNPs for Marker Assisted Selection in wheat breeding. These SNPs
(single nucleotide polymorphism) markers can also be used for variety identification.
Results will be shared by all participants and used to map genetic traits. Gary is
discovering SNPs using published EST sequences through participation in the International
wheat SNP consortium. In a national project Gary is converting SSR markers to SNP markers
with the intention of providing a higher throughput, more economical marker system. 

Since 1998 Gary has contributed to a national programme to map SSR markers on Australian
barley populations. This is done to aid barley breeding for improved disease resistance,
barley quality and agronomic traits. 

Gary earned his BSc at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He has since received
further degrees from The University of Queensland and the Queensland University of
Technology. 

Journal articles

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Targeted single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) discovery in a highly polyploid plant species using 454 sequencing (with Peter C. Bundock, Frances G. Eliott, Adam D. Benson, Rosanne E. Casu, Karen S. Aitken, and Robert J. Henry), Plant Biotechnology Journal (2009)

Discovering single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in specific genes in a heterozygous polyploid plant species, such...

 

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Genetic structuring in the spotted gum complex (genus Corymbia, section Politaria) (with Mervyn Shepherd, Shabana Kasem, Joel W. Ochieng, and Allison C. Crawford), Australian Systematic Botany (2008)

Spotted gums (genus Corymbia, section Politaria) occur as a species replacement series along the eastern...

 

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Sequence polymorphism discovery in wheat microsatellite flanking regions using pyrophosphate sequencing (with Helen Hill and Robert J. Henry), Molecular Breeding (2006)

Sequence polymorphisms such as insertion/deletions (indels) and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) are suitable for automated...

 

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EST versus genomic derived microsatellites for genotyping wild and cultivated barley (with K Chabane, Giovanni M. Cordeiro, J Valkoun, and Robert J. Henry), Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution (2005)

Genetic variation present in wild and cultivated barley populations was investigated using two sources of...

 

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Application of SSR markers in the construction of Australian barley genetic maps (with Angelo Karakousis, Linda K. Banbury, Mehmet Cakir, Timothy A. Holton, Peter Langridge, and Robert J. Henry), Australian Journal of Agricultural Research (2003)

Simple sequence repeat (SSR) or microsatellite markers were examined for polymorphisms among the parents of...

 

Book chapters

Sequence polymorphisms in the flanking regions of microsatellite markers (with Robert J. Henry), Plant Genotyping II: SNP Technology (2008)
 

Conference publications

Utility of mutagenesis and next generation sequencing for accelerating the domestication of a new niche cereal (with Frances M. Shapter, Michael Cross, Silvia Malory, Martin S. Elphinstone, Ian H. Chivers, and Robert J. Henry), Plant and Animal Genome XIX Conference (2011)

A native Australian perennial grass has been targeted for accelerated domestication utilising a combination of...

 

Discovering SNPs for gene mapping in sugarcane using deep sequencing (with Peter C. Bundock, Frances G. Eliott, Adam D. Benson, Rosanne E. Casu, Karen S. Aitken, and Robert J. Henry), Plant and Animal Genomes XVII Conference (2009)

As part of a marker program for QTL discovery, 313 sugarcane genes were targeted for...

 

Discovery of single nucleotide polymorphisms in sugarcane for gene mapping using 454 sequencing (with Peter C. Bundock, Frances G. Eliott, Adam D. Benson, Stirling Bowen, and Robert J. Henry), High-Throughput Genomic Technologies: the 9th Annual Meeting of the Australasian Microarray and Associated Technologies Association (AMATA) (2009)

Sugarcane is genetically complex due to polyploidy, aneuploidy and hybridisation which have led to a...

 

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Induced plant mutation and molecular analysis as a route to genetic improvement of specific grain quality traits (with L Slade Lee, Liz Izquierdo, Nicole F. Rice, and Robert J. Henry), Proceedings of the 13th Australasian Plant Breeding Conference: Breeding for success : diversity in action (2006)
 

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Using longSAGE to study cereal gene expression during grain development and germination (with Peter C. Bundock, Allison C. Crawford, Jessica F. White, Shane R. McIntosh, Giovanni M. Cordeiro, Toni Pacey-Miller, Lee Rooke, Linh Nguyen, Loraine Watson, and Robert J. Henry), Plant and Animal Genomes Conference XIV (2006)

Many methods of studying gene expression rely on previous knowledge of gene sequences to quantify...