Research
Title : | Identification and characterization of male meiocyte-specific promoters to facilitate germline-specific engineering in sorghum |
Area of research : | Agricultural Sciences |
Focus area : | Genome engineering |
Principal Investigator : | Dr Rita Sharma, Associate Professor, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani |
Timeline Start Year : | 2021 |
Contact info : | rita.genomics@gmail.com |
Associated Programme / Scheme : | Core Research Grant (CRG) |
Details
Executive Summary : | The study plan to collate in-house generated data with the publicly available data for sorghum to identify anther-specific genes. The specificity of these genes would be validated in different tissue types using qPCR. The regulatory regions of male meiocyte-specific genes in particular, would be validated for cell-type specificity using transgenic approaches in sorghum. |
Co-PI: | Dr Manoj K Sharma, Assistant Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi |
Total Budget (INR): | 42,90,912 |
Organizations involved
Implementing Agency : | Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani Funding Agency :Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology (DST) | |