Project: Conservation and diversity in transcriptional regulation of developmental processes in crop and model plant species
This project will use genomics technologies in a comparative context to harness the information present in the diversity of species to fill in the gaps in our understanding of model and crop plants. We will focus on a fundamental, economically important and experimentally tractable biological system, plant reproduction, and use genomic and post-genomic tools to model and manipulate the regulatory network at the centre of the reproductive process. Using a comparative approach, we aim to understand how evolutionary variation in non-coding DNA regions has led to variation in reproductive processes in (crop) species. To derive maximum benefit from a broad comparative analysis, we will focus on a key set of genetic interactions characterised in depth in the reference species, Arabidopsis. Our final aim of this project is to achieve an understanding of the cis-regulatory elements controlling reproduction in plants, to understand the evolutionary variation in this network and to benefit from this information to predictably manipulate the system.
| Acronym | CISCODE |
| Duration | 01/09/2007 - 01/09/2010 |
| Website | visit project website |
| Network | ERA-PG |
| Call | Structuring Plant Genomic Research in Europe - ERA-PG First Call for Proposals (2006) |
Project partner
| Number | Name | Role | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghent University | Belgium | ||
| Heidelberg University - Plant Systems Biology Laboratory | Germany | ||
| Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca per gli Alimenti e la Nutrizione | Italy | ||
| John Innes Centre | United Kingdom | ||
| Radboud University Nijmegen | Coordinator | Netherlands | |
| University of Leeds | United Kingdom | ||
| University of Milan | Italy |