Marco Necci
Determination of Malus domestica functional map.
Supervisor : Alessandro Cestaro
Malus domestica, or domesticated apple, is one of the most common fruit crops in the world and has particular interest in Italy, the 6th in the list of country by apples production (Food and Agriculture Organization of The United Nations). More than 7,000 apple cultivars are known, varying in their yield.
The aim of this study is retrieving and analyzing differences at the genome level among cultivar genomes. Since different cultivars have different fruit qualities (like softness and crispness) to retrieve genetic differences among cultivars reflects in a high probability of finding those differences that are responsible for such qualities. To do that, 70 different cultivar genomes have been re-sequenced, covering most of the genetic diversity in cultivated apple, and more than 400,000 Single Nucleotide Variations have been identified. This study will focus on functional annotation of predicted genes for 10 of the 70 cultivars and further SNP annotation.
Biography and contacts
Marco Necci was born in 1989 in Padova-Italy. In 2013, he graduated in Molecular Biology (94/110) and in 2015 he graduated in Molecular Biology Master (110/110 cum Laude) at Padova University (Italy). The same year, he started the doctoral course at the PhD school “Agriculture Science and Biotechnology” at the University of Udine.
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