Project 133: Bacterial Effectors for Plant Immunity
Contact Information
Prof. Gongyou Chen
Email: gyouchen@sjtu.edu.cn
Project Description and Objectives
To know how bacterial effectors trigger plant immunity (ETI) and susceptibility (ETS) via their targets in plants and then to generate durable broad-spectrum resistant plants against bacterial infection. Our working systems include not only Xanthomonas-rice pathosystems, but also other bacterial-plant pathosystems as well. Currently, we have generated an effector-free strain of a model bacterium 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 is(are) the core effector(s) of plant bacteria for water-soaking in plants
Try to understand what is(are) the core effectors of a pathogenic bacterium for basic pathogenicity in plants is (are)
Try to understand what are bacterial core effectors and their targets in plants.
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