Endophytic bacteria are believed to be important for plant growth, plant health and plant resistance. But the exploration of these roles in nature is difficult. To be able to manipulate endophytic bacteria of Nicotiana attenuata, I made 11 different genotypes for the constitutive expression of antimicrobial...
The research of this thesis focused on the circadian RNA-binding protein CHLAMY1 from the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii that consists of two subunits, C1 and C3. CHLAMY1 binds specifically to (UG)≥7-repeat sequences situated in the 3'-UTRs of several mRNAs such as nitrite reductase 1 (nii1).
The...