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Revealing complexity of the plant phenolic metabolism : novel routes to the precursors of the cell-wall biopolymers – PHENOWALL
Lignin is a major hurdle to biomass processing for biofuels production or pulping, as well as to forage digestibility. Crops improvement through metabolic engineering of lignin quantity and/or quality implies a good knowledge of its biosynthetic pathway.
Self-medicative behaviors in African Great Apes. Comparative studies in chimpanzees and gorillas, ontogeny and transmission of behaviors. – SAFAPE (Self-medication in Apes: Food, P
high diversity of the diet of chimpanzees includes plants with pharmacological properties. Self-medicative [...] species. Surprisingly, biological properties of plants from forests of Central Africa have not yet been [...] been deeply investigated. Observations of the plant selection will be conducted in Eastern chimpanzees
Glycan microarrays of cell wall polysaccharides in functional genomics – WALLARRAY-II
WallArray 2 to the call for proposals “Genomics, Plant Biotechnologies” thus joins in the continuity of [...] physico-chemistry, chemistry, structural biology, and plant biology. Cell walls are natural composite structures [...] expansion, differentiation and adhesion governing plant morphology. They are also the sources of oligosaccharide
Functions of glutaredoxins in Iron and REdox Sensing and signaling in plants – FIRES
Iron is an essential element for numerous physiological processes or metabolic pathways but it can be toxic under some circumstances te can generate oxidative stress. This project aims at investigating some protein families involved in cellular iron sensing and signalling.
Opuntia ssp as a source of novel compounds for pharmaceutical new product development. Characterization of bioactive compounds (phytochemicals and biopeptides) and their changes through plant domestication – BIOPUNTIA
Opuntia ssp as a source of novel compounds for pharmaceutical new products development. Characterization of bioactive compounds (phytochemicals and biopeptides) and their changes through plant domestication.
Phytoextraction of metals in contaminated soils: transfer and sequestration of cadmium and zinc in the hyperaccumulating plant Arabidopsis halleri – PHYMET
Phytoextraction of metals in contaminated soils: transfer and sequestration of cadmium and zinc in the hyperaccumulating plant Arabidopsis halleri
Rhizostabilisation of highly heavy metal contaminated mine spoils by using METALlicolous plants associated with microbial SYMbionts – SyMetal
the diversity of available plants (ii) the selection of metal tolerant plant species, especially Fabaceae [...] tion, a technology that uses selected tolerant plants to immobilize metals in contaminated soils, appears [...] contents in those soils, limiting the development of a plant cover. The success of the phytostablisation of the
Plant growth control during abiotic stress – GENOTOX
how growth is controlled in plants and provide the tools to improve plant productivity in the long term [...] proposal is to identify the mechanisms by which plants arrest growth in response to abiotic stress. We [...] many environmental and physiological conditions plants are constantly exposed to, including ionizing radiation
Post transcriptional mechanisms controlling Type 3 secretion in the plant pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum – PATHO-SWITCH
The PATHO-SWITCH project first aims to understand how Ralstonia solanacearum, via HpaP, controls and order the hierarchy of effector secretion. Secondly, we will search for the effectors for which ones HpaP-regulation is crucial for the pathogenicity of the bacterium on Medicago truncatula. Finally, we will try to decipher the hierarchical process of secretion/injection to attempt to better understand the infection process of this major pathogen.
Evolutionary dynamics of genes controlling meiotic recombination in polyploid crop plants – DUPLIC
Meiosis, the basis of sex, evolved through the specialization of duplicated DNA metabolism genes. The resulting “core meiotic recombination machinery” is widely conserved among eukaryotes but it remains unknown whether it has been further enriched in species that have undergone repeated gene duplications in their history. To address this question, we investigated the fate of meiotic gene duplicates following polyploidy (WGD), a common occurrence in eukaryotes.