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Genetic analysis of abiotic stress tolerance

Reference	BBS/E/J/00000366
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Dr Stephen Quarrie
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors
Institution	John Innes Centre
Department	John Innes Centre Department
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	533,241
Status	Completed
Type	Institute Project
Start date	01/04/1997
End date	31/08/2001
Duration	53 months

Abstract

Globally, abiotic stresses are the biggest constraints on crop yields. Even in the UK, drought and low temperature can have significant impacts on many crops, and improved stress resistance is a major target for UK cereal breeders. The project focuses on genetic analysis of adaptation of cereal crops to environmental stresses as part of the TF and BBSRC priority area of environmentally sustainable agriculture, using a multidisciplinary approach that integrates plant physiology, genetics, breeding and biometrics, with extensive external collaborations. It has three key objectives, to determine : causal relationships between biochemical, physiological and developmental traits associated with stress responses and measures of crop productivity under stress (biomass, yield); the extent to which plant responses to different environmental stresses are regulated by the same genes within a particular cereal crop; and the extent to which plant responses to a particular environmental stress are regulated by the same (homoeologous) genes across different cereal crops. Crops studied are bread wheat, maize and rice.

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Committee	Closed Committee - Agri-food (AF)
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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