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Developmental pathway of bacteroid formation in Rhizobium leguminosarum

Reference	P19406
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Philip Poole
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors	Professor J Downie, Professor Andrew Johnston, Dr Ramakrishnan Karunakaran, Professor Peter Lund
Institution	University of Reading
Department	Animal and Microbial Sciences
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	386,220
Status	Completed
Type	Research Grant
Start date	16/10/2003
End date	15/10/2006
Duration	36 months

Abstract

The symbiotic associations between legumes and rhizobia are responsible for fixation of a large portion of the biospheres nitrogen. While we understand a great deal about the early steps in legume nodulation we are woefully ignorant of the developmental changes that accompany the differentiation of free- living bacteria into symbiotic bacteriods. Here we propose to use transcriptomic analysis of R. leguminosarum wild-type and defined mutants blocked in bacteroid formation to investigate the changes in gene expression that accompany the differentiation of free-living cells into bacteroids. In addition the transcriptome facility will be used by all UK researchers to study stress responses in R. leguminosarum.

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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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