SyPro Poplar: Improving Poplar Biomass Production under Abiotic Stress Conditions: an
Integrated Omics, Bioinformatics, Synthetic Biology and Genetic Engineering Approach
EMSL Project ID
50407
Abstract
To engineer bioenergy crops that can grow in dry, marginallands, this project will introduce into poplar trees tolerance
to different environmental stresses such as water deficit,
high soil salinity, and heat. As plants are often exposed
to combinations of these different types of abiotic stress,
poplar lines will be engineered to express multiple stressrelated
genes, each one controlled by a synthetic promoter
that is only induced under specific stress conditions and
within the tissues where its function is needed, improving
biomass production under unfavorable conditions while
avoiding negative effects of unwanted transgene expression.
The project will focus on a poplar hybrid clone for which
a genome sequence is available and will design tissue- and
stress-specific synthetic promoters using plant promoter
databases and computational tools to identify cis-regulatory
elements.
Project Details
Start Date
2018-05-24
End Date
2020-09-30
Status
Closed
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Principal Investigator
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