Headline research projects for this theme:
OpenPlant has built community standards for modular DNA parts, establishing an open source engineering platform for reprogramming plant growth using the simple lower plant, Marchantia polymorpha. Lead: Jim Haseloff.
Systems allowing small electrical devices to be powered from currents generated by photosynthetic microorganisms have been developed. Lead: Julian Hibberd.
A community-led effort to identify, characterize and generate standard DNA parts to facilitate genetic manipulation of the model green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Lead: Alison Smith
Defining the minimal set of genes required to engineer nitrogen-fixing symbioses into cereals. Lead: Giles Oldroyd.
Associated research groups:
- David Baulcombe
- Sam Brockington
- Sebastian Eves-van den Akker
- Howard Griffiths
- Jim Haseloff
- Ian Henderson
- Julian Hibberd
- Wanne Kromdijk
- Alison Smith
Contributing research groups from associated institutions:
- Alexander Jones (Sainsbury Lab)
- James Locke (Sainsbury Lab)
- Giles Oldroyd (Sainsbury Lab)
- Paul Dupree (Biochemistry)
- Chris Howe (Biochemistry)