Assessing the genetic diversity of rice originating from Bangladesh, Assam and West Bengal

Acknowledgements This work was funded by BBSRC research project BB/J00336/1. FS and a part of the proportion of the cost of the Illumina genotyping was funded by a Beachell-Borlag International Fellowship. The authors would like to acknowledge the help of Dr MK Sarmah in collecting seed samples of the landraces and improved cultivars from Assam used in this study and Dr. Ma. Elizabeth B. Naredo and Ms. Sheila Mae Q. Mercado for handling of IRGC accessions and preparation of DNAs for genotyping. All rice seeds used here were obtained with MTA agreements and seed and dry leaves imported into the UK under import licence IMP⁄SOIL⁄18⁄2009 issued by Science and Advice for Scottish Agriculture.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Genetic loci regulating arsenic content in rice grains when grown flooded or under alternative wetting and drying irrigation

The 2 M SNP genotype data of the BAAP is available as a project called “BAAP” at the SNP-Seek database (http://snp-seek.irri.org/). The phenotype data used for the GWAS is presented in Additional file 1: Table S1. The bulk of this work was supported by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, mostly from project BB/J003336/1, while a small part of the work by AJT was also supported by project BB/N013492/1 (NEWS-India-UK). Plant material was imported into the UK under import licence IMP/SOIL/19/2014.Peer reviewedPublisher PD