Action overview
Unravelling signalling steps and metabolic pathways controlling abiotic stress tolerance of plants, provides essential tools for coping with the accumulating negative effects of climate changes in breeding, agriculture and environmental protection. Improvement of efficacy of plant stress tolerance is essential for successful combating salinization, frost damage and desertification in European and also in other non-COST participating countries. Drought, salt and cold tolerance traits of crops are controlled by biological regulatory mechanisms governing the production of highly effective stress-protecting metabolites, including polyamines and proline. The major goal of this COST proposal is to stimulate cutting-edge collaborative research towards understanding the regulatory mechanisms of abiotic stress signalling pathways leading to the production of major stress-protective plant compounds. By stimulating scientific exchange among molecular geneticists, biochemists, plant physiologists and breeders, the network program aims at the identification of key regulators of plant abiotic stress responses and their essential stress-protective end-targets. Keywords: Abiotic stress, plants, signalling pathways, signalling components, transcription factors, osmo-protectants, polyamines
Domain : Food and Agriculture
Action title : Signaling control of stress tolerance and production of stress protective compounds in plants
| Action details |
Parties |
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Country |
Date |
Status |
MoU : 333/06
CSO Approval date : 20/11/2006
Entry into force : 21/03/2007
End of Action : 16/12/2011
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| Austria |
10/09/2008 |
Confirmed |
| Belgium |
08/06/2007 |
Confirmed |
| Bulgaria |
21/03/2007 |
Confirmed |
| Croatia |
10/09/2008 |
Confirmed |
| Czech Republic |
17/04/2007 |
Confirmed |
| Denmark |
21/03/2007 |
Confirmed |
| Estonia |
21/03/2007 |
Confirmed |
| Finland |
28/11/2007 |
Confirmed |
| France |
14/02/2008 |
Confirmed |
| Germany |
21/03/2007 |
Confirmed |
| Greece |
21/03/2007 |
Confirmed |
| Hungary |
23/05/2007 |
Confirmed |
| Israel |
12/09/2007 |
Confirmed |
| Italy |
22/05/2007 |
Confirmed |
| Lithuania |
07/07/2009 |
Confirmed |
| Luxembourg |
24/07/2007 |
Confirmed |
| Netherlands |
23/05/2008 |
Confirmed |
| Norway |
26/03/2007 |
Confirmed |
| Poland |
21/03/2007 |
Confirmed |
| Portugal |
24/04/2007 |
Confirmed |
| Slovak Republic |
10/09/2008 |
Confirmed |
| Spain |
20/03/2007 |
Confirmed |
| Switzerland |
17/12/2007 |
Confirmed |
| Turkey |
11/07/2007 |
Confirmed |
| United Kingdom |
22/05/2007 |
Confirmed |
| Total |
25 |
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| Non COST Institutions |
| Institution Name | Country |
| National Research Centre |
Egypt |
| International Centre for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology (ICGEB) |
India |
| Universidad Nacional de San MartÃn (UNSAM) |
Argentina |
| Universidad Nacional de Cordoba (UNC) |
Argentina |
| Tohoku University |
Japan |
| University of Tasmania |
Australia |
| Institute for Wine Biotechnology |
South Africa |
| Centre of Biotechnology of Sfax |
Tunisia |
| |
| Intentions to accept the MoU |
| Country |
|
Status |
| Cyprus |
|
Intention |
| Iceland |
|
Intention |
| Ireland |
|
Intention |
| Slovenia |
|
Intention |
| Sweden |
|
Intention |
| Total |
5 |
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Action Web Site: http://cost-inpas.org/
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