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515: Regulation of abscisic acid biosynthesis

Reference	BBS/E/H/00AT0234
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Andrew Thompson
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors
Institution	University of Warwick
Department	Warwick HRI
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	163,600
Status	Completed
Type	Institute Project
Start date	01/04/2005
End date	31/03/2006
Duration	12 months

Abstract

"The overall aim is to increase water-use efficiency in plants through control of ABA signalling. Our previous work has shown that over-expression of 9-cis-epoxycarotenoid dioxygenase (NCED) results in over-production of ABA and reduced stomatal conductance. This provides an approach to genetically control water use in crop plants. We seek to use plants with higher ABA content (i) to understand the role of ABA in mediating whole plant physiology, including growth, water use and metabolism, and (ii) to investigate the agronomic utility of high ABA plants through analysis of a new generation of plants with more targeted transgene expression"

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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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