Project 115: 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 a effector-free strain of a model race PXO99A which may elucidate PTI、ETI and ETS.
Eligibility Requirements:
Graduates for Master or Ph D degrees, who take similar research projects, are welcome.
Main Tasks:
Try to understand what is (are) the core effector(s) of Xanthomonas oryzae for water-soaking in rice
Try to understand what are the core effectors of Xanthomonas oryzae for basic pathogenicity in rice
Try to understand what Xanthomonas core effectors and their targets in rice.
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