Working groups

1. Trait dissection and map alignment.
   This includes common nomenclature for linkage groups, map integration, map alignment, development and use of   common populations for phenotyping and mapping studies, development and use of common markers.
   
   
2. Informatics
   Development of common web based resources and tools to underpin    developments within Trifolium and links to M. truncatula.
   
   
3. ESTs and Arrays
   To develop integrated, common resources with respect to production and use of EST libraries in Trifolium. Also to progress approaches to transcriptome analysis through arrays.
   
   
4. BAC (or fosmid) End Sequencing or equivalent
     To initiate and co-ordinate funding bids for key requirements particularly with respect to physical and genetic mapping in Trifolium and the ‘overlay’ of these maps onto M. truncatula.