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403a: The regulation of leaf senescence

Reference	BBS/E/H/00032639
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Vicky Buchanan-Wollaston
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors
Institution	University of Warwick
Department	Warwick HRI
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	541,400
Status	Completed
Type	Institute Project
Start date	01/04/2003
End date	31/03/2005
Duration	24 months

Abstract

The long term aims of the programme are to identify and characterise the key genes/proteins that control gene expression during leaf senescence in Arabidopsis and to use these to elucidate the complex signalling networks that operate during senescence. Senescence enhanced genes encoding potential regulatory proteins have been identified from Arabidopsis. A selection of these genes are being functionally characterised using insertion mutants and RNAi lines. Microarray analysis is being used to characterise the effects of the mutation in each gene on gene expression during senescence. Once genes that have a key role in senescence are identified, a few will be chosen for protein:protein interaction analysis to identify interacting proteins.

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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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