Code
01D17421
Duration
01 October 2021 → 31 October 2021
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Microbiology not elsewhere classified
- Plant cell and molecular biology
Keywords
Arbuscular mycorrhizae
sustainable tomato cultivation
sugar transport
regulation
Project description
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi offer a sustainable solution for nutrient deficiencies and drought during tomato cultivation. We will first identify tomato sugar transporters and sensors important in this symbiosis. We will then engineer the sugar flux between the two partners and assess the effect on mycorrhization and tomato fruit quality/development using stable transgenic tomato lines.