STREG

Project

Goal of this project is the identification of novel abiotic stress regulators that can be applied for generating abiotic stress tolerance in transgenic plants. The project has an application-oriented objective and is carried out in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. The identified regulators will be tested in the crop plant rice (Oryza sativa). The successful transfer from Arabidopsis to rice will open up the possibility to generate other stress tolerant crops. Furthermore, abiotic stress regulators may be used for selecting stress tolerant genotypes through molecular breeding. The proposed project will contribute significantly to a more sustainable agricultural system through increase of yield and yield stability. The project is a Franco-German-Spanish private/public partnership in plant genomics and plant biotechnology. Four academic and one industrial partner are tightly collaborating to achieve a common goal. The academic partners are Bielefeld University, Germany, Estación Experimental Aula Dei/CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany, and INRA, Versailles, France. The industrial partner is BASF Plant Science, Ludwigshafen, Germany. The approach is interdisciplinary and involves methods of informatics, bioinformatics, molecular biology, and high throughput phenotypic screenings.

The project is funded by

Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany

Ministére de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche, France

Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, Spain