Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0347682

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP0347682

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Integrons in Xanthomonas pathovars: Do they have a role in plant pathogenicity? Bacteria in the genus Xanthomonas cause serious diseases of plants, identification being based on the plant species from which they were originally recovered. Xanthomonads contain integrons, genetic elements capable of acquiring and expressing diverse genes. In other bacterial groups, the gene content of integrons varies significantly between strains of the same species, and in many cases these genes code for cell surface proteins. These characteristics are precisely those we might expect to be responsible for interactions between plants and bacteria. This project aims to examine a large collection of xanthomonads for integrons, and determine whether particular integron gene contents are associated with host-pathogen specificity.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2003

End Date: 01-01-2006

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $146,294.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Microbial Genetics | Plant Biology | Genome Structure | Plant Pathology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Primary products from plants | Biological sciences |

Other Keywords

Biological sciences | Genome Structure | Microbial Genetics | Plant Biology | Plant Pathology | Primary products from plants

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