MOMEVIP will shed new light on the biological functions of volatile isoprenoids, the most abundant plant volatiles, focusing on those traits that may help plants survive and cope with stresses exacerbated by global change. It stems from frontier research that has been carried out by all partners and that has brought fundamental advances in our knowledge of VIP functions and roles. Joining expertise in –omics and ecophysiology, and using high-throughput equipment, MOMEVIP will make possible to inspect the metabolic and molecular control of VIP biosynthesis and the subtle feedbacks that VIP induction exerts on whole plant metabolism and production.
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Project Leader:
Dr Silvia Fineschi
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
Principal Investigators:
Professor Harro Bouwmeester
Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Professor Wilhelm Gruissem
ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Professor Han Asard
University of Antwerp, Belgium
Professor Armin Hansel
University of Innsbruck, Austria
Dr Jenny Renaut
Centre de Recherche Public Gabriel Lippmann, Belvaux, Luxembourg
Associated Partners:
Professor Jörg-Peter Schnitzler
Helmholtz Zentrum Münschen, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Professor Thomas Sharkey
Michigan State University, East Lansing, United States
