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Systemic signalling for carbon dioxide in Arabidopsis thaliana

Reference	P15690
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor William Quick
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors	Professor Julie Gray, Professor F.I. Woodward
Institution	University of Sheffield
Department	Animal and Plant Sciences
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	226,488
Status	Completed
Type	Research Grant
Start date	29/07/2002
End date	28/06/2006
Duration	47 months

Abstract

The grant holders have recently identified a novel systemic signalling pathway in plants where mature leaves control the responses of stomatal development, in expanding leaves, to environmental signals, in particular elevated CO2. This project aims to identify the temporal dynamics of those signals and gene products involved in this pathway. A combination of genomic techniques will be used, T-DNA tagged knockout plants and previously characterised mutants to identify systematically those gene products and signals involved in responding to changes in atmospheric CO2. This work will also produce a comprehensive survey of gene expression patterns in response to elevated CO2 and (from control plants) a profile of gene expression during early leaf development.

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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	X - not in an Initiative
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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