Code
01CD08624
Duration
01 October 2024 → 31 March 2025
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Analysis of next-generation sequence data
- Physiology
- Cell signalling
- Plant cell and molecular biology
- Plant genetics
Keywords
glutathione
thiol-disulphide
pathogenesisrelated genes
forward genetic screen
salicylic acid
glutamate receptor-like
redox
biotic interactions
oxidative stress
luciferase
Project description
In plants, glutathione is known to have a critical influence on salicylic acid activation in response to various stresses. This PhD project aims to decipher the cellular mechanisms, the signalling pathways and the genetic actors participating in the transducing of glutathione signals into salicylic acid synthesis. Three strategies are employed in Arabidopsis: a physiological study of the response to glutathione, a transcriptomic analysis of glutathione-responsive genes and a forward genetic screen.