Elucidating the native function and signalling components of the cell death executioners Bs3 and Bs4C (D08)

• Subject Area: Organismic Interactions, Chemical Ecology and Microbiomes of Plant Systems ; Plant Biochemistry and Biophysics
• Term: since 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 232631280

Preliminary work in the project resulted in identification of genes that are required for cell death executed by the pepper resistance genes Bs3 and/or Bs4C. We will characterize the identified signaling components at the molecular level and establish testable working models that explain how Bs3/Bs4C expression translates into cell death. Moreover we will study the proposed native function of Bs3/Bs4C as transcriptionally-controlled regulators of developmental programmed cell death.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1101: Molecular Encoding of Specificity in Plant Processes
• Applicant Institution: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Thomas Lahaye; Professor Dr. Thilo Stehle, until 12/2021