2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Functional analysis of natural genetic variation of non-model species using model species
Project/Area Number |
23657015
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Research Field |
Ecology/Environment
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Research Institution | National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo |
Principal Investigator |
IKEDA Hajime 独立行政法人国立科学博物館, 植物研究部, 研究員 (70580405)
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Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2012
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Keywords | 分子生態 |
Research Abstract |
I have focused PHYE in Cardamine nipponica that have two alleles distinguished by several amino acid replacements in wild populations. At first, I succeed cloning PHYE into a vector to induce protein synthesis in E. coli. In particular, I made chimeric constructions that exchanged some amino acid replacements between alleles. In addition, I made construct of PHYE to apply transformation of Arabidopsis thaliana. Because PHYE is a large gene (ca. 3600 bp in protein coding region), I took much time for cloning and failed to obtain sufficient data about functional differences of alleles of PHYE. Nevertheless, my progress could contribute future work to unravel functional differences of alleles found in wild populations.
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Research Products
(4 results)