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FOR 666: Mechanisms of compatibility: Reprogramming of plant metabolism by fungal effector molecules
The FOR 666 consortium aims at a concerted in depth comparative analysis of “compatibility mechanisms” in host microbe interactions by comparing parasitic and mutualistic interactions of fungal model microbes exhibiting biotrophic and hemibiotrophic life styles with their cereal hosts. Major strategies of the consortium are defining complementary projects that collaboratively investigate both, the plant and the microbe side of an interaction. The projects are guided and supervised by a bioinformatics platform that computes all the transcriptome and metabolome data from the different systems. Since FOR 666 scrutinizes crop plants, it is the principal facet of the consortium to seek for tangible solutions in sustainable plant production. The future program of FOR 666 is based on the data obtained in the first funding period and is in line with the initial work schedule: to identify compatibility-related fungal and plant genes during the first period and to carry out a detailed analysis of such genes in the second funding period.
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Subprojects
Projects
- Identification of genes of Colletotrichum graminicola involved in establishment and maintenance of compatibility
- The early infection phase of Ustilago maydis: adaptation to the plant environment
- Calcium signals and associated genes
- Systemic phloem signals for compatibility or defence in response to fungal infections in Zea mays and Hordeum vulgare
- Barley compatibility factors pivotal for root colonisation and manipulation of basal defence by Piriformospora indica
- Establishment of cell-specifically inducible expression systems in transgenic barley and maize
- Redirection of photoassimilate partitioning by biotrophic, hemibiotrophic and mutualistic fungi through altered transporter gene expression
- Metabolic determinants in the interaction of biotrophic and hemibiotrophic fungi with cereals
- Towards dissecting mechanisms of compatibility in plants and fungi: a systemsbiology approach combining transcriptome and metabolome data
- Interactive signal transfer in the leaf apoplast between host and pathogen during successful infection
- The role of RBOH-type NADPH oxidases in compatibility of barley with fungal organisms
