Objective
Recent studies with pathogenic bacteria and fungi have shown that several genes are induced when the pathogen grows in planta. The avirulence genes code for race-specific protein elicitors which are inducers of the hypersensitive response in plants with the complementary resistance genes. In order to develop durable resistance crops to pathogens by molecular resistance breeding, a good understanding of the function and regulation of avirulence genes is essential. One of these genes is the avirulence gene Avr9 of Cladosporium fulvum. In this project we will study the regulation of the expression of the Avr9 gene by performing promoter analysis and searching for cis- and trans-activating elements. Mutants will be isolated which show constitutive expression in vitro of this in planta-induced gene. Mutants with alterations in the regulatory genes will be used in complementation studies to isolate positive clones which code for the regulatory proteins.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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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 microbiology bacteriology
- natural sciences biological sciences biochemistry biomolecules proteins
- natural sciences biological sciences microbiology mycology
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture
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6709 PD WAGENINGEN
Netherlands
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