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(A) Plant genetics functional genomics and ecophysical research

Reference	JE412698
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Tony Trewavas
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors	Professor John Grace
Institution	University of Edinburgh
Department	Inst of Cell and Molecular Biology
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	146,766
Status	Completed
Type	Research Grant
Start date	01/02/2000
End date	01/08/2000
Duration	6 months

Abstract

The requested funds, matched by funds from 2 biotechnology companies, a major charitable foundation and a research institute, will allow the replacement of obsolete, unreliable and inefficient 40-year-old growth chambers with new facilities which increase the capacity for large scale genetic studies 10-fold and provide high specification environmental control. Planned use includes: 1). continuing studies of growth, development, metabolism and disease resistance by 12 molecular plant science groups; 2). development of an integrated Arabidopsis functional genomics programme centring on the use of activation tagging for the identification and cloning of novel genes affecting key traits; and 3). ecophysiology research on carbon cycle microcosms and climate change.

Summary

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Committee	Closed Committee - Plant & Microbial Sciences (PMS)
Research Topics	X – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	Joint Equipment Initiative 1999 (JE4) [1999]
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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