Location: Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research
Project Number: 5030-21220-068-004-A
Project Type: Cooperative Agreement
Start Date: Jun 1, 2020
End Date: Apr 30, 2025
Objective:
The project will utilize both computational and functional approaches to investigate the temporal control of immunity to obligate fungal pathogens.
Approach:
In Aim 1, the team will pair the new high-quality, barley genome assembly with expression Quantitative Trait Locus (eQTL) and time-course barley + powdery mildew transcriptome data to identify immune-active regulatory elements. Then in Aim 2, gene silencing and overexpression assays will be used to validate the role(s) of specific elements during pathogen attack.
