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Functional characterisation in brassica of component genes for broad spectrum (species level) resistance to crop pathogens in Arabidopsis

Reference	D16979
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Murray Grant
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors
Institution	Imperial College London
Department	Biological Sciences
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	139,152
Status	Completed
Type	Research Grant
Start date	24/07/2002
End date	24/07/2005
Duration	36 months

Abstract

Sustainable deployment of disease resistance remains an important challenge which will increasingly rely on transfer of novel resistance specificities from wild species into a crop by marker assisted selection and genetic transformation. Evidence from Arabidopsis demonstrates that broad spectrum or species level resistance (SL resistance) can be inducible, conferred by multiple receptor-like proteins that are common determinants of race specific resistance. High throughput transformation has been established at HRI in brassicas, enabling us to systematically transfer large number of candidate genes from Arabidopsis into the crop and identify ones that confer resistance to brassica pathogens. The geographical distribution of such genes in Arabidopsis will be investigated, providing information for future deployment of SL resistance components in crops. (Joint with grant 16978).

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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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D16978 Functional characterisation in brassica of component genes for broad spectrum (species level) resistance to crop pathogens in Arabidopsis

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