Code
01W02112
Duration
01 October 2012 → 30 September 2016
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Evolutionary biology
- General biology
- Plant biology
Keywords
T-DNA transfer
horizontal gene transfer
evolution
Project description
The aim of this project is to scharacterize the complete T-DNAs found in the sweetpotato genome and their insertion sites in the genome of speetpotato and its wilt relatives. Furthermoreit will be analyzed id the sweetpotato T-DNA genes are associated with the characteristic phenotypic root thcikening in a segregating population of sweetpotato and in wild relatives.