Project description
Legumes are an important crop due to their role in improving soil nitrogen levels through their symbiosis with nitrogen-fixing bacteria. However, commercial cultivars are not ideally suited to growth conditions in Australia, often resulting in stressed plant. Stress results in ROS generation and can cause cellular damage, referred to as “oxidative stress”. Plants have mechanisms for protecting themselves against ROS. This project will investigate these pathways, their relationship with plant growth, and ability of the plants to form a symbiosis with soil rhizobia, using transgenic legumes. Co-supervisor: David Day.
Co-supervisors
flinders.edu.au/people/david.day
Assumed knowledge
DNA to Genome, Protein to Proteome, Integrating Molecular Biosciences, Integrating Biotechnology
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