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The genetics and biology of model legumes

Reference	BBS/E/J/00000150
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Trevor Wang
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors
Institution	John Innes Centre
Department	John Innes Centre Department
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	2,396,765
Status	Completed
Type	Institute Project
Start date	01/04/1997
End date	30/09/2016
Duration	234 months

Abstract

Legumes are important crops for providing foodstuffs and raw materials for industry. They form symbiotic relationships with soil microorganisms and fungi for acquiring nitrogen and phosphorous. They also produce unique secondary metabolites important to human health and the plant’s own defence responses. We are using model legumes, in particular, Lotus japonicus, to develop an understanding of carbon partitioning in the plant, especially between plant and symbiont, and to develop genomics and metabolomics platform technologies. We are isolating mutants by performing forward screens for numerous characters including nodulation and nitrogen fixation, leaf starch for primary metabolism and phenylpropanoids for secondary metabolism. We are also targeting specific genes in all these processes using reverse genetics TILLING approaches.

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Committee	Not funded via Committee
Research Topics	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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