Project 125: Xanthomonas Effectors for Plant Immunity
Contact Information:
Prof. Gongyou Chen
Email: gyouchen@sjtu.edu.cn
Project Description and Objectives:
To know how Xanthomonas effectors trigger plant immunity (ETI) and susceptibility (ETS) via their targets in plants and then to generate durable broad-spectrum resistant plants against Xanthomonas infection. Our working systems include not only Xanthomonas-rice pathosystems, but also other Xanthomonas-plant pathosystems as well. Currently, we have generated an effector-free strain of a model race PXO99A which may elucidate PTI, ETI and ETS.
Eligibility Requirements:
Students of Master’s or PhD degree programs, who have undertaken similar research projects, are welcome.
Main Tasks:
Try to understand what the core effector(s) of Xanthomonas oryzae for water-soaking in rice is (are)
Try to understand what the core effectors of Xanthomonas oryzae for basic pathogenicity in rice is (are)
Try to understand what the Xanthomonas core effectors and their targets in rice are.
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