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Intracellular accommodation of nitrogen-fixing symbiotic bacteria – BugsInACell
Role of antimicrobial peptides in plant-bacteria symbioses, in the bacterial differentiation and in trophic exchanges.
Genetic, genomic and ecophysiologigal bases of tomato adaptation to water stress and other environmental stresses – AdapTom
which enable the plant to adapt to a changing environment, is necessary for future plant breeding programs [...] Understanding mechanisms governing plant adaptation to the environment is a crucial challenge in the [...] approaches are a powerful way of linking whole plant physiology, stress adaptation and crop breeding
Adaptations to dietary shift in aquaculture: characterization and enhancement – AGREENFISH
response to plant-based diets and (ii) find markers of short or long term adaptation of fish to plant ingredients [...] with plant-based diets. We will compare the responses of the different groups when fed a plant-based [...] has forced a shift from marine resources towards plant products as ingredients for fish feed. The proportion
Origin of the angiosperm carpel. – ORANGe
evolutionary biology: the origin of the flowering plants, or angiosperms. This group arose some 150 million [...] carpels, and hence the flower and the flowering plants. Our initial approach will be based on current [...] s and the sister to all other living flowering plants Amborella trichopoda, whose genome has recently
Integrated response of plant, microbial and N Cycling InTEractions to precipitation patterns – INCITE
Improved mechanistic comprehension of ecosystem responses to altered precipitation patterns is required to adequately assess responses to future climatic conditions.
A trait-based approach linking individual Fitness of Fungal plant pathogens to ecological strategies. – FunFit
The objective of the FunFit project is to confront theoretical mathematical models and biological observations in order to better understand the evolution of biological characters (or life history traits) related to aggressiveness and dispersal abilities of fungal pathogens of forest trees. Three major forest diseases were selected as study models: poplar rust, chestnut blight and oak powdery mildew.
A COmbination of systems Biology and experimental high-throughput approaches to engIneer durable Resistance against plAnt viruses in crops – COBRA
Plant viruses cause an estimated 50 billion € loss worldwide per year. They represent one of the most limiting factors in European crop production. The best and safest practice would be the introduction of resistance traits in crop plants. The scope of COBRA is to intensify applied and fundamental research on plant/virus interactions in order to diversify targets for resistance gene pyramiding strategies and to match the research outputs with industry and breeding applications.
Epigenetic control of extrachromosomal forms of transposable elements in plants. – EXTRACHROM
in humans. In plants, relatively few active copies of TEs have been identified in plants, and their c [...] humans they make up more than 40% of nuclear DNA, in plants they can account for more then 80% as in the maize [...] the mobile part of the genome or “mobilome” in plants and develop techniques that will be transferred
Exploitation of the knowledge on Oomycete effectors to drive the discovery of durable disease resistance in cultivated plants – EFFECTOORES
resistance genes against plant pathogenic Oomycetes in three cultivated plants of economic importance in [...] Plant pathogenic Oomycetes cause important losses in agriculture. Tomato late blight caused by Phytophthora [...] to the competitiveness of European agriculture. Plant disease resistance proteins recognise pathogen-encoded