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Molecular mechanisms regulating yield and yield stability in plants
Securing food reserves for the growing world population will require inputs from various disciplines including plant biology, plant breeding, plant biotechnology, agricultural industries as well as farming. In the absence of a precise knowledge about the underlying molecular mechanisms, progress in crop breeding and production will be difficult to achieve and the transfer of knowledge from model plants to crop plants or from one crop plant to another crop plant will not be obvious.
The SFB924 brings together experts from different fields of plant biology such as plant reproduction biology, hormone biology, stress physiology, phytopathology and plant breeding that make use of high throughput technologies supported by bioinformatics to resolve the molecular mechanisms that regulate yield and yield stability in plants. Research of the participating groups focusses on processes that regulate reproductive success as well as quantitative and qualitative aspects of seed formation (yield regulation). A second project area concentrates on the molecular mechanisms that govern the interactions of plants with their abiotic and biotic environment (yield stability).
Coordinating institution
Subprojects
Yield Regulation
- Comparative transcriptomics reveals conserved components of gibberellin signalling between model and crop plants
- Analysis of SLM-dependent signal transduction mediating floral organ shape in Arabidopsis thaliana
- Comparative analysis of defensins/defensin-like proteins during reproduction and pathogen defense in maize
- Gamete interaction and fusion during double fertilization
- Genetic and molecular analysis of cotyledon differentiation and seed growth
- Biogenesis and maintenance of plant vacuoles
- Programmed cell death in Arabidopsis: Function of KDELpeptidases in development and pathogen defense (2)
- Comparison of amino acid supply mechanisms between natural and nematode-induced sink tissues in Arabidopsis
- Functional characterization of Pathogenesis-Related10 (PR10) genes
Yield Stability
- Cross talk of ABA signalling with auxin and ethylene responses
- Genetic analysis of complex traits in maize: major components of drought tolerance and growth-related traits
- Genetic dissection of arbuscular mycorrhiza development
- Structural and functional dynamics of remorin proteins during plant pathogen interactions
- Biotechnological applications of natural defense mechanisms
- Systemic acquired resistance in plants – an -omics approach to pathogen defense signalling
- Functional analysis of Ralstonia solanacearum TAL effectors
- Transcriptional and metabolic patterns of barley for basal disease resistance and susceptibility to powdery mildew
- Analysis of the function of alcohol dehydrogenase in defense/stress response and metabolic regulation
Bioinformatics
