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Funding for the project commenced 1 September 2006 and the collaborating groups have been engaged in a number of different activities:

  1. Morphological characterization of leaf, petiole and stem trichomes;
  2. Terpene and Acyl sugar analysis of leaf trichomes;
  3. Development of methods for purifying or enriching for specific trichome types;
  4. cDNA production and 454 sequencing from leaf, petiole and stem trichomes, along with analysis of the EST sequences;
  5. Development of methods for broader metabolite profiling using direct infusion-MS/MS approaches;
  6. Mining existing sequence libraries for candidate genes encoding enzymes of terpene and acyl sugar synthesis and in vitro biochemical analysis of these candidates.

The Solanum Trichome Project is a collaborative functional genomics project funded by a National Science Foundation grant to Michigan State University, The University of Michigan and The University of Arizona. Did you find a bug or an error? Please let us know.