Understanding how the Arabidopsis plant peptide 'Kiss Of Death' (KOD) induces cell death in plant cells

了解拟南芥植物肽“死亡之吻”(KOD) 如何诱导植物细胞死亡

• 批准号: 1621652
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Manchester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2015 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-1621652
• 关键词: Understanding; how; Arabidopsis; plant; peptide

Feeding the world's growing population is one of the greatest challenges of our time, requiring a substantial increase in global crop yield. To avoid crippling losses on their farm, most farmers welcome the idea of responsible agrochemical use. Bayer CropScience scientists are working on effective, environmentally compatible mechanisms of action for innovative crop protection products. In this way they are helping farmers in the UK and around the globe to safeguard the food supply for a growing world population. This work requires a continuous development of molecules to keep ahead of new challenges and respond to new regulatory frameworks. Active molecule discovery is therefore a very important part of feeding the world. The recent discovery at the University of Manchester, of a small plant peptide termed Kiss-Of-Death that regulates plant programmed cell death, represents a unique opportunity for crop protection scientists to develop new approaches for novel molecules. This collaboration with industry will bring a large-scale capability to the academic research side that will benefit the development of the project and increase its relevance to crop protection.

养活世界不断增长的人口是我们这个时代最大的挑战之一，这需要大幅提高全球作物产量。为了避免农场的严重损失，大多数农民都欢迎负责任地使用农用化学品的想法。拜耳作物科学的科学家们正在为创新作物保护产品开发有效的、环境相容的作用机制。通过这种方式，他们正在帮助英国和地球仪各地的农民为不断增长的世界人口保障粮食供应。这项工作需要不断开发分子，以应对新的挑战并应对新的监管框架。因此，活性分子的发现是养活世界的一个非常重要的部分。曼彻斯特大学最近发现了一种名为Kiss-Of-Death的小植物肽，它可以调节植物程序性细胞死亡，这为作物保护科学家开发新分子的新方法提供了一个独特的机会。与工业界的这种合作将为学术研究方面带来大规模的能力，这将有利于项目的发展，并增加其与作物保护的相关性。