Objective
The overall objectives of this grain legume project are :
- to analyze the capacity of selected legume seeds (pea and fababean) to
accumulate storage products (sink-source relationship);
- to analyze the relationship between carbohydrate and storage
protein/nitrogen metabolism at the level of gene expression;
- to isolate and evaluate promoters for temporally and spatially regulated
gene expression in seeds and;
- to use these promoters, in combination with existing and new gene sequences,
to specifically change sink capacity and/or storage product composition in
legume seeds, as a pre-requisite for quality improvement and engineering into
seeds of exogenous high-added-value components.
The project therefore seeks to increase the understanding of the relationship between carbohydrate and nitrogen metabolism in the seeds of the temperate European grain legumes pea and fababean, the long-term objective being the improvement via directed manipulation, of legume seed composition for agriculture, including food and non-food uses.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences biological sciences biochemistry biomolecules proteins
- natural sciences biological sciences biochemistry biomolecules carbohydrates
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture grains and oilseeds legumes
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Coordinator
06466 GATERSLEBEN
Germany
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