EXOTIC: Exon trapping insert consortium

• Research unit: EU RFP
• Project number: 99.0306

Key words (English)

Biotechnology; Life Sciences; Medicine; Health; Scientific Research; Arabidopsis; functional genomics; gene expression; gene disruption

Alternative project number (English)

EU project number: QLG2-1999-00351

Research programs (English)

EU-programme: 5. Frame Research Programme - 1.1.8 Generic R&D activities

Short description (English)

See abstract

Partners and International Organizations (English)

Coordinator: AMICA Science EEIG, Gent (B)

Abstract (English)

Objective: A network of laboratories will be formed to create a large population of gene-trap insertions in the genome of Arabidopsis thaliana to detect the spatial and temporal expression patterns of approximately 5.000 genes, and to identify and characterise the regulatory elements of these genes. Data obtained on the genes, in which transposons are inserted, will be obtained by sequencing the insertion site and this will be related to genome sequence and expression patterns in a functional genomics database. Gene expression patterns in a wide range of tissues and conditions will be defined and put in the database. The products of research will be a powerful resource to analyse the function of 20% of the genes in Arabidopsis, and these will be exploited by industrial partners.

References in databases (English)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
State Secretariat for Education and Research
Hallwylstrasse 4
CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland
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Swiss Project-Number: 99.0306