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Role of the KOJAK gene in cell wall formation in plants
Reference
BBS/E/J/00001328
Principal Investigator / Supervisor
Professor Liam Dolan
Co-Investigators /
Co-Supervisors
Institution
John Innes Centre
Department
John Innes Centre Department
Funding type
Research
Value (£)
22,891
Status
Completed
Type
Institute Project
Start date
24/01/2001
End date
23/01/2003
Duration
24 months
Abstract
Kojak mutants have short root hairs that lyse and the mature plant is smaller in stature than wild type, indicating that KJK is required for cell wall biosynthesis in the root hair and throughout the plant. We have cloned KJK, and as expected, it encodes a member of the cellulose synthase family of genes (AtCslD3). kjk1 and kjk3 alleles have premature stop codons resulting translation of an attenuated protein while there is a V-M mutation at the active site in the kjk-2 allele. All are predicted to be complete loss of function mutations. The aim of the present proposal is to characterise the role for this in cell wall formation in Arabidopsis using the root hair as a model using a structural approach.
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Committee
Closed Committee - Plant & Microbial Sciences (PMS)
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Research Priority
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Funding Scheme
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