Diversity of disease resistance mechanisms in arabidopsis (DILEMMA) – DILEMMA

In DILEMA we aimed to investigate the phenotypic variation of selected geographical accessions, recombinant inbred (RI) populations and defence signalling mutants of the model species, Arabidopsis, to define regulatory steps in resistance to multiple pathogen types. Within this collaborative framework, we incorporated analysis of several key post-translational regulatory mechanisms and assessed whether these contribute to the natural variation of resistance observed in wide crosses between Arabidopsis accessions. A further component of DILEMA was to discover new plant resistance components that could, in future, enhance our understanding of plant defence signalling networks.