Project Number: 6618-22000-030-18
Project Type: Specific Cooperative Agreement

Start Date: Sep 30, 2005
End Date: Sep 30, 2010

Objective:
To continue research to identify differentially expressed genes in the ornamental plant Petunia, floricultural crops and, from this information, to develop promoters that regulate specfic genes involved in floral senescence and plant nutrition.

Approach:
Develop a coordinated research effort to isolate and sequence promoter elements in floricultural crops, to analyze expression of these genes using macro- or micro- array analysis, to identify genes with specific expression characteristics associated with tissue and physiological states, and to verify promoter function of specific genes using transgenic Petunia as the model.