Award details

Improved antioxidant content for food applications (PROFOOD)

Reference	BBS/E/J/0000A043
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Cathie Martin
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors
Institution	John Innes Centre
Department	John Innes Centre Department
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	167,010
Status	Completed
Type	Institute Project
Start date	01/12/2001
End date	30/11/2004
Duration	36 months

Abstract

The objectives are 1) to decipher the regulation of flavonoid biosynthesis, 2) to produce engineered plants tailored for synthesis of flavonoid and phenolic phytoprotectants, 3) to contribute to the molecular and biochemical tools to assist plant breeding and risk assessment. We will contribute to objective 1 through the isolation and biochemical characterisation of transcription factors that regulate phenylpropanoid metabolism. Objective 2 will be served by engineering expression of these transcription factors in tomato fruit to manipulate the quantity and quality of phenlypropanoids accumulated. We will contribute DNA probes for transcript profiling on microarrays for the realisation of 3.

Summary

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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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