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 Title  Plant Receptor-like Kinases in ROS Signaling
   
Acronym PROSIG 
   
Duration 3 years
   
Project leader Jaakko Kangasjärvi, University of Helsinki, Finland
   

Other project participants

David Collinge*, Copenhagen University, Denmark
Silke Robatzek, MPI for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany
Jan Willem Borst, Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands
Stanislaw Karpinski*, Stockholm University, Sweden
    
 Funding  Academy of Finland (AKA), Finland
   The German Research Foundation (DFG), Germany
   Netherlands Genomics Initiative / Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NGI/NWO), The Netherlands
   
  * participant with own funding
   
Total granted budget  € 744,470
   
Abstract  
Receptor-like kinases are one of the largest protein families known in plants. In spite of their abundance in the plant genome, comparatively little is known about their function during signaling processes.
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are now recognized as important signaling molecules with roles in responses to abiotic and biotic stresses, both themselves triggering ROS production. However, how plants can distinguish between ROS with the apparent specificity in respect to subcellular localization and type of ROS is yet very poorly understood.
Bringing together expertise in plant pathogen interactions, ROS biology in plants, and experience in the investigation of RLK interactions the PROSIG consortium (Plant Receptor-like Kinases In ROS Signaling) aims to understand the functional role of the RLK protein family in ROS signaling.