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Role of plant secondary metabolites in stress and pest resistance

Reference	BBS/E/C/00014199
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Dr Roger Wallsgrove
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors
Institution	Rothamsted Research
Department	Rothamsted Research Department
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	185,056
Status	Completed
Type	Institute Project
Start date	01/04/1999
End date	31/03/2001
Duration	24 months

Abstract

Biochemical and physiological studies are being conducted on biologically active plant secondary metabolites that may have a function in plant defence and stress resistance. Plants make a wide variety of compounds to mediate interactions with the environment and other organisms. Understanding the biological role(s) of such compounds, and how the plant makes them and regulates their biosynthesis, may facilitate their altered expression towards improved crop protection and stress resistance. This information will be valuable for both conventional breeding programmes and for production of defined transgenic lines to test hypotheses.The objectives, for any given secondary metabolite or family of metabolites, are to study their biosynthesis and how such synthesis is regulated and controlled. Potentially important genes involved in the process are identified and cloned. Through collaboration with others at IACR and elsewhere, the biological roles of the compounds are studied, with respect to interactions between the plant, environmental and biotic stresses.

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Committee	Closed Committee - Plant & Microbial Sciences (PMS)
Research Topics	X – not assigned to a current Research Topic
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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