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Parasponia to Crack Evolution of Rhizobium Symbiosis (ParaEvolution)

Date du début: 1 mai 2012, Date de fin: 30 avr. 2018,

Mutualism is wide spread in nature and significantly impacts ecosystems. However, the principles governing its evolution have proved elusive. The rhizobium-legume symbiosis is one of the most sophisticated mutualistic interactions, as it results in the formation of a novel organ, the root nodule, where rhizobium is hosted intracellularly as nitrogen fixing ‘organelles’. These are named symbiosomes ...
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Development of improved perennial non-food biomass and bioproduct crops for water stressed environments (WATBIO)

Date du début: 1 nov. 2012, Date de fin: 31 oct. 2017,

"The goal of WATBIO is to use the power of next generation sequencing to develop an accelerated route for producing new germplasm with enhanced drought tolerance whilst maintaining biomass productivity and quality in water scarce, marginal environments unsuitable for food crops.This will be achieved for three non-food crops (Populus, Miscanthus and Arundo), suitable for growth on water scarce, mar ...
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Control of meiotic recombination: from Arabidopsis to crops (COMREC)

Date du début: 1 nov. 2013, Date de fin: 31 oct. 2017,

"Global population stands at 7 billion and is predicted to reach 9 billion by 2050. It is anticipated that food production will need to increase by at least 50% to meet the demand arising from this increase in population. This will require a sustained improvement in crop yield. The nature of this challenge is exacerbated by the likely impact of climate change. These factors combine to make Food Se ...
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Experimental evolution of microbial eco-systems in traditional Zambian fermented products (ZamFerm)

Date du début: 1 déc. 2013, Date de fin: 30 nov. 2016,

"The goal this research project is to test evolutionary hypotheses on ecosystem evolution using traditional fermented products as natural yet manipulatable model systems. Specifically, I will establish what factors affect eco-system evolutionary dynamics, test hypotheses on the repeatability of eco-system evolution and test predictions from the long-standing ""competitive exclusion"" hypothesis. E ...
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Epigenetic regulation of economically important plant traits (EPITRAITS)

Date du début: 1 oct. 2012, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2016,

The mission of EpiTRAITS is to train young researchers in epigenetic gene regulation and flowering in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana and the crop plants maize (Zea mays) and barley (Hordeum vulgare). Epigenetic gene regulation confers stability of gene expression patterns through cell divisions while allowing changes in expression in response to environmental or developmental cues. Although ...
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Optimizing Miscanthus Biomass Production - OPTIMISC (OPTIMISC)

Date du début: 1 oct. 2011, Date de fin: 31 mars 2016,

Miscanthus is a C4 perennial rhizomatous grass that has become a leading candidate crop for production of lignocellulosic feedstocks due to its rapid biomass accumulation in temperate climates. There is currently a single commercial clone, M. x giganteus, which has a number of limitations. Research over the past 20 years has shown that a few key species and their interspecific hybrids have a high ...
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Pollen thermotolerance and crop fertility (SPOT-ITN)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2012, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2015,

The Marie Curie Initial Training Network SPOT-ITN will establish a multi-site network of early stage and experienced researchers at 9 partner institutions - including 3 from the private sector - in 4 European member countries and Israel to investigate fundamental and applied aspects of thermotolerance mechanisms contributing to the protection of pollen development at increased ambient temperatures ...
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Gains from Losses of Root and Tuber Crops (Gratitude)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2012, Date de fin: 31 mars 2015,

Cassava and yam are important food security crops for approximately 700 million people. Post-harvest losses are significant and come in the three forms: (a) physical; (b) economic through discounting or processing into low value products and (c) from bio-wastes. This project aims to reduce these losses to enhance the role that these crops play in food and income security.Post-harvest physical lo ...
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"Improving nutrient efficiency in major European food, feed and biofuel crops to reduce the negative environmental impact of crop production" (NUE-CROPS)

Date du début: 1 mai 2009, Date de fin: 30 avr. 2014,

"The MAIN AIM of the proposed integrating project NUE-CROPS is to develop knowledge, models and tools required to (a) breed/select NUTRIENT USE EFFICIENT (NUE) CROPS and (b) integrate NUE-crops with AGRONOMIC INNOVATIONS to significantly reduce fertiliser use and associated negative environmental impacts of crop production, while maintaining or improving crop yield and quality. The consortium incl ...
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Systems Biology to understand Plant Architecture (SysArc)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2009, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2013,

Extensive feedback between gene expression state and the cellular environment yields tangled hierarchies . This lack of strictly hierarchical control mechanisms poses a challenge to developmental biologists: the outcome of interaction networks with extensive feedbacks is not intuitive and must be analyzed with analytical tools. Here, I propose a combination of experimental and theoretical approac ...
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A conserved mechanism regulating shoot and root lateral organ placement (PHYLLORHIZOTAXIS)

Date du début: 1 août 2011, Date de fin: 31 juil. 2013,

"Plant architecture is largely determined by branching patterns in the shoot and root systems. Shoots of seed plants, such as the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, branch via lateral bud outgrowth, where branches are patterned along the stem at the base of a leaf. Roots branch laterally from an internal cell layer surrounded by differentiated tissues, at a distance from the root tip. Despite the d ...
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