Project description
Keeping crops healthy
Economically important crops are under ever-increasing threat by various pathogens, which is detrimental not only to food security but also to the environment. As up to 30 % of crop production is lost to plant pathogens each year, new crop protection strategies are necessary. In this context, the EU-funded ExtraImmune project will study secreted host proteins that are manipulated, uncovered by cutting-edge functional chemical proteomics. Specifically, the project will address the challenges and unlock central components of extracellular immunity. To that end, it will identify host targets manipulated by proteins, metabolites and post-translational modifications that are phenotypically hidden by pathogen-mediated suppressions.
Fields of science
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesbiochemistrybiomoleculesproteinsproteomics
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesmicrobiologybacteriology
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesmicrobiologymycology
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesbiochemistrybiomoleculesproteinsenzymes
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Funding Scheme
ERC-ADG - Advanced Grant
Host institution
OX1 2JD Oxford
United Kingdom
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OX1 2JD Oxford
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