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Regulatory gene initiative in arabidopsis

Objective

Transcription factors (TF) are recognised as having a great biotechnological potential and also to have played a pivotal role in the evolution of plants.

The aim of this project is to establish the function of plant TFs, and it will involve:
(i)the definition of TF gene expression patterns in Arabidopsis;
(ii) the identification of insertion mutations at TF loci;
(iii) the ectopic expression of TFs (or derivatives) in Arabidopsis and in crop plants;
(iv) their phenotypic analysis;
(v) the analysis of interactions between TFs, and
(vi) the generation of a bio-informatics infrastructure.

This programme will help to reveal the full biotechnological potential of plant TFs and provide insights into hierarchies, redundancies, interdependencies and into their evolution. The study will involve the preparation of a TF gene array and of a normalised TF ORF library in a 2-Hybrid vector, two tasks justifying the European dimension of the project.
Second edition of the TF gene array, containing 1194 probes and 26 controls..81 Arabidopsis lines containing constructs over-expressing TFs and 28 RNA interference/antisense RNA constructs.·7 tomato lines transformed with TF over-expressors, RNAi or antisense constructs. ·4 rapeseed lines transformed with TF over-expressors, RNAi or antisense constructs. ·Improved methods for high-throughput metabolic and AFLP-based RNA profiling. ·Library of 125 insertion mutants at TF loci. ·Web accessible database bringing together information on TFs, their gene sequences, and interactions, with custom-built navigation and interrogation tools.

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AMICA SCIENCE EEIG
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Norwich Research Park John Innes Centre, Colney
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