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Control of Programmed Cell Death by Metacaspases in plants (PlantPCDcontrol)

Start date: May 23, 2014, End date: Nov 15, 2016,

Plant pathogens devastate crops resulting in yield losses and increasing the use of often unsustainable pesticides. Understanding the basic mechanisms of the plant immune system will increase our ability to successfully combat plant diseases, satisfying the growing needs for sustainable food production, a future challenge for European agriculture.Cell death has a central role in innate immune resp ...
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Control of programmed cell death by metacaspases in plants (PCDMC)

Start date: Aug 1, 2012, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

"Cell death has a central role in innate immune responses in both animals and plants. The hypersensitive response (HR) is a plant-specific form of programmed cell death (PCD) occurring at the site of attempted pathogen invasion. A tight regulation of HR is essential in order to avoid unnecessary tissue damage beyond the infection site. However, the signaling pathways leading to HR still remain ill ...
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Regulation of Seed Storage Oil Mobilization (SOM) by the Phytochrome-Interacting bHLH Transcription Factors PIFs (PIF Oil)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

Storage oil mobilization (SOM) breaks down the reserve lipids in the seed and converts them to sugar. SOM is essential to support postgermination growth and seedling establishment, which are of foremost importance for plant fitness in the field. Light is the main environmental cue determining the transition between heterotrophic growth based on oil reserves and photoautotrophic growth supported by ...
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GMO Risk Assessment and Communication of Evidence (GRACE)

Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

The project GRACE willa) elaborate and sustainably implement a transparent framework for the review of GMOs or GM food and feed effects on environment, socio-economics and health andb) reconsider the design, execution and interpretation of results of animal feeding trials as well as in vitro studies for assessing the safety of GM food and feed.The framework will create high quality reviewing proc ...
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Intergenomic Relationships during plant-pathogen interactions (SMALLRNATRANSFER)

Start date: Nov 18, 2011, End date: Nov 17, 2015,

Genomes of higher eukaryotes encode small regulatory RNAs that direct transcriptional and post-transcriptional gene silencing.Two major classes of small RNA occur in plants, microRNAs (miRNAs) and small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), with the major difference being their biogenesis pathways. Most small RNAs are generated through a series of maturation steps and incorporated into RNA-induced silencing ...
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Preparatory steps towards a GMO research ERA-Net (PreSto GMO ERA-Net)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

The objective of the PreSto GMO ERA-Net project is to clearly map out the steps needed to create and successfully implement an ERA-Net that will coordinate transnational research on the effects of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in the areas of human and animal health, the environment, and techno- economics and societies. The focus of the ERA-Net will be on GMOs intentionally released into t ...
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Dissecting Carotenoid-Related Protein Interaction Dynamics for Tailoring Healthier Crops (CarotenActors)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Improving health, food quality and food safety are major demands of Europe’s society and economy. Addressing these demands requires a deeper knowledge of the basic mechanisms that regulate plant and animal metabolism. Carotenoids are a group of plant pigments that animals need to ingest as an essential source of retinoids (including vitamin A). Dietary consumption of carotenoids is also associated ...
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Study of the role of protein posttranslational modification by SUMO (Small Ubiquitin-like MOdifier) in abscisic acid signaling and stress responses in plants (SUMO)

Start date: Jul 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

"Eukaryotic protein function is regulated in vivo by diverse mechanisms such as protein turnover, regulation of protein activity, localization and protein-protein interactions. These mechanisms involve constitutive or reversible post-translational modifications of specific amino-acid residues in the target protein by molecules of different nature. Ubiquitin and ubiquitin-like modifiers are polypep ...
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Identification and characterization of novel plant growth regulators acting downstream of the phytochrome-interacting bHLH transcription factors in the dark (Dark Growth)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

Plants modulate their growth and development to adjust to the continuous variations in their light environment. During early development, seedlings emerging from buried seed grow vigorously upward in the subterranean darkness toward the soil surface (etiolated growth), a developmental strategy promoted by several members of the phytochrome (phy)-interacting factor (PIF) subfamily of bHLH transcrip ...
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