Molecular and genetic analysis of epigenetic components in a model plant.

模型植物表观遗传成分的分子和遗传分析。

• 批准号: DP0988846
• 负责人: A/Prof Iain Searle
• 金额: $ 54.68万
• 依托单位: The University of Adelaide
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2009-10-01 至 2014-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP0988846
• 关键词: Molecular; genetic; analysis; epigenetic; components

Australia is a major exporter of agricultural food crops thus producers must maintain their competitive advantage in order to compete on the world stage. Food crops unfortunately have large, complex genomes that are not sequenced and a generation time of months that makes research outcomes slow to achieve. This project proposes to utilise a model plant that has a small completely sequenced genome and a short generation time making it ideal to study the fundamental biological process of RNA silencing. Discoveries and outcomes from this project may have the potential to benefit Australian crops, ecosystems and human health.

澳大利亚是农业粮食作物的主要出口国，因此生产者必须保持其竞争优势，以便在世界舞台上竞争。不幸的是，粮食作物有庞大而复杂的基因组，没有测序，而且一代时间长达数月，这使得研究成果的取得缓慢。本项目拟利用一种模式植物，该植物具有较小的完全测序基因组和较短的世代时间，使其成为研究RNA沉默基本生物学过程的理想选择。该项目的发现和成果可能有益于澳大利亚的作物、生态系统和人类健康。