Code
01CD02224
Duration
01 November 2024 → 30 April 2025
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Plant biochemistry
- Plant cell and molecular biology
- Plant genetics
- Plant morphology, anatomy and physiology
Keywords
Metabolomics
Growth enhancement
Transcriptomics
Proteomics
Plant biotechnology
Yield increase
Project description
The CYP78A enzymes are conserved among landplants and play key roles in plant growth and drought tolerance. Identification of the CYP78A-catalysed reaction and unravelling their regulation, will lead to new biostimulants and breeding targets enhancing crop yield-increase and drought tolerance. Through use of metabolomics, interactomics and multiplex CRISPR, substrate-product couples and regulators were identified.