Post date: Oct 10, 2016 3:22:44 AM
As a pre-cursor to the my main Dimensions experiments, I want to quantify the effect of plant genotype on L. melissa caterpillar performance using sequenced Medicago truncatula lines. Information on the Medicago truncatula hapmap project can be found here. I requested ~200 seeds from each of 248 sequenced accessions. I chose all of the accessions that were available, were M. truncatula, and were not part of a distantly related clade shown here. More information on these lines, including their use in a previous GWA study can be found in this paper. Once we get the lines, the first step will be to try to grow them.