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Molecular study of ORPHEUS, a transcription factor potentially involved in (cell) expansion of Arabidopsis thaliana hypocotyls

Nowadays society faces a worrying energy sources shortage due to the growth of the world population and the rapid exhaustion of fossil fuel reserves. Renewable energy as plant biomass plays a central role to face the future, thus the increase in plant mass is an important target. Consequently, cell expansion mechanism, greatly contributing to biomass, is a current topic in scientific studies. Because of the suitable characteristics as a model plant, Arabidopsis thaliana was chosen in order to perform the present study. An interesting Arabidopsis mutant, apollo, was isolated at Professor Vissenberg’s lab. Light-grown apollo shows a 4 times hypocotyl length increase over WT plants due to increased cell elongation. In this work we introduce ORPHEUS, a gene affected by the T-DNA insertion in apollo. Its study can provide useful knowledge about the mechanism/regulation of cell expansion

Director: Figueras i Vall-llosera, Mercè
Vissengerg, Kris
Altres contribucions: Universitat de Girona. Facultat de Ciències
Autor: Suari Rivera, Ariadna
Data: setembre 2015
Resum: Nowadays society faces a worrying energy sources shortage due to the growth of the world population and the rapid exhaustion of fossil fuel reserves. Renewable energy as plant biomass plays a central role to face the future, thus the increase in plant mass is an important target. Consequently, cell expansion mechanism, greatly contributing to biomass, is a current topic in scientific studies. Because of the suitable characteristics as a model plant, Arabidopsis thaliana was chosen in order to perform the present study. An interesting Arabidopsis mutant, apollo, was isolated at Professor Vissenberg’s lab. Light-grown apollo shows a 4 times hypocotyl length increase over WT plants due to increased cell elongation. In this work we introduce ORPHEUS, a gene affected by the T-DNA insertion in apollo. Its study can provide useful knowledge about the mechanism/regulation of cell expansion
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Accés al document: http://hdl.handle.net/10256/12100
Llenguatge: eng
Col·lecció: Biotecnologia (TFG)
Drets: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Spain
URI Drets: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
Matèria: Biomassa forestal
Energia de la biomassa
Conreus energètics
Conreus -- Enginyeria genètica
Energies renovables
Forest biomass
Biomass energy
Energy crops
Crops -- Genetic engineering
Renewable energy sources
Títol: Molecular study of ORPHEUS, a transcription factor potentially involved in (cell) expansion of Arabidopsis thaliana hypocotyls
Tipus: info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis
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