Project

The molecular basis of the growth promoting capacity of a Caulobacter sp. on Arabidopsis thaliana

Code
01D24517
Duration
01 October 2017 → 30 September 2021
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Proteins
    • Analysis of next-generation sequence data
    • Bacteriology
    • Posttranslational modifications
    • Transcription and translation
    • Plant biochemistry
    • Plant cell and molecular biology
    • Plant morphology, anatomy and physiology
    • Proteomics
    • Transcriptomics
Keywords
plant growth promotion transcriptomics proteomics phosphoproteomics signaling pathways Caulobacter
 
Project description

A Caulobacter sp., originating from maize roots, exerts a plant growth promoting effect on both maize and Arabidopsis thaliana. Until now our knowledge on the molecular basis of this plant-microbe interaction is very scarce. Via transcriptomics, proteomics and phosphoproteomics we aim at gaining molecular insights into the processes that give rise to the observed growth promoting phenotype.