Systems Level Regulation of Rhythmic Growth Rate and Biomass Accumulation in Grasses [electronic resource]

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 668.4 Plastics
• Thông tin xuất bản: Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2017
• Mô tả vật lý: Size: 2 p. : , digital, PDF file.
• Bộ sưu tập: Metadata
• ID: 263294
• Chủ đề: 1. 09 biomass fuels; 2. Biomass accumulation; 3. Brachypodium distachyon; 4. Plant growth; 5. Regulated growth behavior

Tóm tắt

Critical to the development of renewable energy sources from biofuels is the improvement of biomass from energy feedstocks, such as sorghum and maize. The specific goals of this project include 1) characterize the growth and gene expression patterns under diurnal and circadian conditions, 2) select transcription factors associated with growth and build a cis-regulatory network in yeast, and 3) perturb these transcription factors in planta using transgenic Brachypodium and sorghum, and characterize the phenotypic outcomes as they relate to biomass accumulation. A better understanding of diurnally regulated growth behavior in grasses may lead to species-specific mechanisms highly relevant to future strategies to optimize energy crop biomass yield.