FOR 666: Mechanisms of Compatibility: Reprogramming of Plant Metabolism by Fungal Effector Molecules
Biology
Final Report Abstract
The FOR 666 consortium aimed at a concerted in depth comparative analysis of “compatibility mechanisms” in host microbe interactions by comparing parasitic and mutualistic interactions of fungal model microbes exhibiting biotrophic and hemibiotrophic life styles with their cereal hosts. Major strategies of the consortium were defining complementary projects that collaboratively investigated both, the plant and the microbe side of an interaction, with a strong focus on the central experiment (CET) guided and supervised by a bioinformatics platform that computed transcriptome and metabolome data from the different biological systems used in FOR 666. Since FOR 666’s focus was on crop plants, it was the principal facet of the consortium to seek for tangible solutions in sustainable plant production. To this end, compatibility-related fungal and plant genes that were identified in the first period of FOR666 have been further characterized and validated in the second funding period.
