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Plant Immunisation - a technology for crop virus control

Reference	BBS/E/J/000CA504
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor George Lomonossoff
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors
Institution	John Innes Centre
Department	John Innes Centre Department
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	81,436
Status	Completed
Type	Institute Project
Start date	01/11/2012
End date	31/10/2014
Duration	24 months

Abstract

Since expression of plant virus coat proteins in transgenic plants has been shown to confer protection against subsequent virus challenge, transient expression should be able to achieve a similar effect in a far shorter time frame provided an efficient means of delivery is devised. This project will investigate the ability of plant symbiotic bacteria to deliver plasmids expressing viral coat proteins to plant cells in such a manner as to confer virus resistance. If this can be achieved, it would pave the way the rapidly protecting crop plants against a wide variety of plant viruses by simply spraying suspensions of bacteria on their leaves.

Summary

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Committee	Not funded via Committee
Research Topics	Crop Science, Microbiology, 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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