Development and evolution of land plant shoots

陆地植物芽的发育和进化

• 批准号: DP160100892
• 负责人: Prof John Bowman
• 金额: $ 37.14万
• 依托单位: Monash University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2016-01-01 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP160100892
• 关键词: Development; evolution; land; plant; shoots

How do plants grow and develop their wonderful diversity of forms, from cereal crops to eucalypt forests? The project aims to understand basic mechanisms of plant development via comparative studies using the model angiosperm, Arabidopsis, and the liverwort, Marchantia, which possesses a simplified genome. Comparative studies of the genetic basis of the body plan, branching, and hormonal action could unlock their evolutionary elaboration from the simpler liverworts to more complex flowering plants. The project may generate new understanding of the principles of how genes and hormones control the architecture of plant shoot systems, and support the targeted selection of new agricultural plants.

从谷类作物到桉树森林，植物如何生长和发展其奇妙的多样性形式？该项目旨在通过使用模式被子植物拟南芥和具有简化基因组的地钱的比较研究来了解植物发育的基本机制。对身体结构、分支和激素作用的遗传基础进行比较研究，可以解开它们从简单的苔类到更复杂的开花植物的进化过程。该项目可能会对基因和激素如何控制植物枝条系统的结构的原理产生新的理解，并支持有针对性地选择新的农业植物。