Code
3E005511
Duration
01 October 2011 → 10 August 2016
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- General biology
- Plant biology
Keywords
root system architecture
strigolacton signalization
forward genetics
genome wide analysis
Project description
Strigolactons (SLs), a recently discovered class of plant hormones, influence root system architecture. Via three complementary approaches (a) Genome-wide expression changes in the root where MAX2, the putative SL receptor is active (b) EMS mutagenesis of max2 mutants and (c) interaction with known players of root system architecture we aim at unraveling the strigolacton signalization pathway.