Description: The MLL lab - Genetics and Epigenetics of Plant Abiotic Stress Response and Resilience
stress (5062) genetics (482) global warming (462) food security (180) tomato (169) epigenetics (79) agricultural research (16)
The Michal Lieberman-Lazarovich Lab
This projects targets genetic diversity between tomato cultivars that differ in their capability to set fruit under high temperatures. By performing detailed developmental, physiological and molecular characterization of the plants under field as well as controlled stress conditions, we aim at identifying the array of traits and genes that underlie heat-tolerance in processing tomato.
This project involves screening a population of introgression lines of wild species into cultivated tomato. Under the hypothesis that wild relatives of the cultivated tomato evolved in harsh environments and have evolved to cope well with abiotic stress conditions, we will screen the introgression population under heat stress conditions in order to identify QTL and genes related to heat stress tolerance.