Code
3E003711
Duration
01 October 2011 → 30 September 2017
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Plant genetics
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Agricultural and food sciences
- Food sciences and (bio)technology not elsewhere classified
Keywords
arabidopsis
lignomics
reverse genetics
metabolomics
ferulate
lignin
phenolic metabolism
ferulic acid
LC-MS
cell wall
Project description
Ferulic acid is a precursor for several important metabolic classes (including lignin) in plants, but is nevertheless barely studied. This project aims at pathway discovery in the FA metabolism in the model system Arabidopsis via metabolomic and reverse-genetic techniques.