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Identification and characterisation of immediate early genes involved in the elaboration of the hypersensitive response in plants

ReferenceP07702
Principal Investigator / Supervisor Professor Murray Grant
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Institution Imperial College London
DepartmentBiological Sciences
Funding typeResearch
Value (£) 154,096
StatusCompleted
TypeResearch Grant
Start date 01/12/1997
End date 01/12/2000
Duration36 months

Abstract

The elaboration of the hypersensitive response (HR) results in rapid changes to host cell physiology and metabolism through a highly coordinated programme of cell death. Clearly this process requires intimate cross-talk between pathogen and host, and host cellular communication in the immediate vicinity of pathogen infection. We propose two complementary approaches to identify immediate early genes involved in the HR elaborated by an effective triggering of the RPM1 mediated disease resistance signal transduction pathway (DRSTP); (i) use arbitrary primed PCR fingerprinting of RNA to identify immediate early genes transcriptionally activated/repressed during the DRSTP (ii) identify potential regulatory protein kinases which are post-transcriptionally activated during the DRSTP.

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Committee Closed Committee - Plant & Microbial Sciences (PMS)
Research TopicsX – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research PriorityX – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative X - not in an Initiative
Funding SchemeX – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme
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