Objective
Major advances have been made in knowledge of plant genomes and the recombination processes regulating their structure and integrity. However exploitation of this is limited by absence of methodology for the targeted, in site modification of plant genes and chromosomes. In plants the somatic homologous recombination machinery is overwhelmed by another recombination process (NHEJ) , which causes incoming DNA to insert at a random position in the genome, often accompanied by unwanted rearrangements. This is an important reason for questioning the safety of transgenic crops. We directly address these issues and 5 academic and 2 industrial research groups together aim to develop novel tools to obtain gene targeting in plants, based on a detailed understanding of recombination in plants. The groups will contribute considerable novel expertise and biological material to the project: plant hyperecombination mutants, cloned genes and proven assays.
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 genetics DNA
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture
- natural sciences biological sciences genetics chromosomes
- natural sciences biological sciences genetics genomes
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63177 AUBIERE
France
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