Project Number: 3625-21000-049-02
Project Type: Specific Cooperative Agreement

Start Date: Sep 16, 2003
End Date: Aug 31, 2008

Objective:
Identify Arabidopsis homologs of barley genes that are important in disease resistance and determine their function.

Approach:
Barley sequences that have been identified via highly parallel expression profiling will be utilized to computationally determine Arabidopsis homologs. T-DNA or transposon-tagged insertion mutants will be identified. Genes will be silenced through RNAi technology and also overexpressed to determine function. Genes will be checked for commonality of response to different plant pathogens. Transgenic plants will be tested to assess risk of single gene insertions on gene regulation of new plants. BL2-P; Recertified November 17, 2004.