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Enhancing gene target in plants
Reference
D12040
Principal Investigator / Supervisor
Professor Claire Halpin
Co-Investigators /
Co-Supervisors
Dr Abdellah Barakate
Institution
University of Dundee
Department
College of Life Sciences
Funding type
Research
Value (£)
249,108
Status
Completed
Type
Research Grant
Start date
01/10/1999
End date
20/02/2003
Duration
40 months
Abstract
The aim this work is to capitalise on a number of recent scientific advances, combining them to develop an effective gene targeting system for plants. (1) Promising negative selection systems already shown to work in plants will be adapted for gene targeting. (2) Bacterial recombinases shown to enhance recombination when introduced singly into plants, will be co-ordinately expressed in plants along with other potential recombination- enhancing proteins. The plants transformed will already contain an artificial recombination substrate so that changes in somatic and meiotic recombination frequencies can be easily assessed. Finally, the best results from these two approaches will be combined to develop a gene targeting system for plants.
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Committee
Closed Committee - Agri-food (AF)
Research Topics
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Research Priority
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Research Initiative
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Funding Scheme
X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme
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