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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

Manager: Figueras i Vall-llosera, Mercè
Vissengerg, Kris
Other contributions: Universitat de Girona. Facultat de Ciències
Author: Suari Rivera, Ariadna
Date: 2015 September
Abstract: 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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Document access: http://hdl.handle.net/10256/12100
Language: eng
Collection: Biotecnologia (TFG)
Rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Spain
Rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
Subject: 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
Title: Molecular study of ORPHEUS, a transcription factor potentially involved in (cell) expansion of Arabidopsis thaliana hypocotyls
Type: info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis
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