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Targetted improvement of crop resilience to temperature stress

Reference	BBS/E/J/000CA432
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Dr Philip Wigge
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors
Institution	John Innes Centre
Department	John Innes Centre Department
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	39,632
Status	Completed
Type	Institute Project
Start date	18/04/2011
End date	17/04/2012
Duration	12 months

Abstract

Temperature stresses are a major threat to crop yields. Unlike water stress or nutrient deficiency, the farmer has few options to ameliorate temperature stress. Secondly, climate change is increasing both the frequency and severity of hot summers. Each 1 ºC increase in temperature decreases yields by 2.5-16 %. Moreover, most major crops are affected, even in “optimum” growing areas. In a recent BBSRC-funded project, we discovered how plants (and indeed all eukaryotes) control their response to temperature via the dynamic occupancy of nucleosomes by particular histone types. This fundamental finding opens up an entire area of biology for commercial exploitation, including the ability to precisely engineer optimised temperature responses in crops. This FoF project will (a) test and confirm different molecular strategies to modify plant temperature response and (b) provide and test transgenic barley and brassica materials to test and demonstrate the applications in crop plants.

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Committee	Not funded via Committee
Research Topics	Crop Science, 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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