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Cereal seed composition and end use quality

Reference	BBS/E/C/00004953
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Peter Shewry
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors
Institution	Rothamsted Research
Department	Rothamsted Research Department
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	990,117
Status	Completed
Type	Institute Project
Start date	01/04/2008
End date	31/03/2012
Duration	48 months

Abstract

Cereals are the major arable crops in the UK and provide food, feed and raw materials for industry. Different end uses require different composition in terms of the amounts and compositions of the major grain components: starch, protein and cell wall polysaccharides. This project therefore uses a range of approaches (including metabolomics, transcriptomics and transgenesis) to dissect the pathways and mechanisms that determine cereal grain composition and to exploit this information to tailor the composition for traditional and novel end use requirements. Specific targets are:- 1. Manipulating the amounts and composition of wheat endosperm cell walls for health (dietary fibre), feed and processing (distilling, biofuels). 2. Understanding the mechanisms by which proteins determine grain mechanical and functional properties. 3. Manipulating the patterns of gene expression and pathways of protein trafficking and deposition to develop novel wheats with improved processing properties.

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Committee	Closed Committee - Plant & Microbial Sciences (PMS)
Research Topics	Bioenergy, Crop Science, Industrial Biotechnology, Plant Science
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	X - not in an Initiative
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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