Characterisation of intragenic cisregulatory modules in transcription during de novo shoot regeneration

Abstract

Plants along with all other organisms play a vital role in the ecosystem. However unlike birds or animals, they cannot move. To save themselves from their predators, plants evolved various strategies. Various strategies also evolved so as to sustain the injuries and maintain their species on the planet.Plants possess remarkable property of regeneration. The process of regeneration, like all otherlife processes is carried out with fine tuning of various transcription factors. Plants regenerate in various different ways. Mechanisms underlying these processes have been studied for quiet some time now. Recent studies from the lab revealed important information about CUC2 a shoot promoting factor and XTH9 a cell wall regulating enzyme. It revealed the regulatory mechanisms underlying shoot formation. The main motive of this project was to explore this regulation in greater depth.