Purdue University was awarded a $749,611 Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program. The four-year award will support the development of genomic selection techniques to breed honey bees with improved disease resistance and other economically important traits. Specifically, the university will create an inexpensive genotyping service and conduct research to identify genomic regions associated with traits of interest. This will enable bee breeders to incorporate genomic data into breeding programs to more rapidly select stock expressing desired traits. The work aims to provide beekeepers with information on disease resistance and other traits in colonies purchased from different stock sources.
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