EPICLINES SIGNED
Elucidating the causes and consequences of the global pattern of epigenetic variation in Arabidopsis thaliana
Total Cost €
0EC-Contrib. €
0Partnership
0Views
0EPICLINES project word cloud
Explore the words cloud of the EPICLINES project. It provides you a very rough idea of what is the project "EPICLINES" about.
Project "EPICLINES" data sheet
The following table provides information about the project.
| Coordinator |
GREGOR MENDEL INSTITUT FUR MOLEKULARE PFLANZENBIOLOGIE GMBH
Organization address contact info |
| Coordinator Country | Austria [AT] |
| Total cost | 2˙498˙468 € |
| EC max contribution | 2˙498˙468 € (100%) |
| Programme |
1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)) |
| Code Call | ERC-2017-ADG |
| Funding Scheme | ERC-ADG |
| Starting year | 2018 |
| Duration (year-month-day) | from 2018-06-01 to 2023-05-31 |
Partnership
Take a look of project's partnership.
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GREGOR MENDEL INSTITUT FUR MOLEKULARE PFLANZENBIOLOGIE GMBH | AT (WIEN) | coordinator | 2˙498˙468.00 |
Map
Project objective
Epigenetics continues to fascinate, especially the notion that it blurs the line between “nature and nurture” and could make Lamarckian adaptation via the inheritance of acquired characteristics possible. That this is in principle possible is clear: in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana (Thale cress), experimentally induced DNA methylation variation can be inherited and affect important traits. The question is whether this is important in nature. Recent studies of A. thaliana have revealed a pattern of correlation between levels of methylation and climate variables that strongly suggests that methylation is important in adaptation. However, somewhat paradoxically, the experiments also showed that much of the variation for this epigenetic trait appears to have a genetic rather than an epigenetic basis. This suggest that epigenetics may indeed be important for adaptation, but as part of a genetic mechanism that is currently not understood. The goal of this project is to determine whether the global pattern of methylation has a genetic or an epigenetic basis, and to use this information to elucidate the ultimate basis for the global pattern of variation: natural selection.
Are you the coordinator (or a participant) of this project? Plaese send me more information about the "EPICLINES" project.
For instance: the website url (it has not provided by EU-opendata yet), the logo, a more detailed description of the project (in plain text as a rtf file or a word file), some pictures (as picture files, not embedded into any word file), twitter account, linkedin page, etc.
Send me an email (fabio@fabiodisconzi.com) and I put them in your project's page as son as possible.
Thanks. And then put a link of this page into your project's website.
The information about "EPICLINES" are provided by the European Opendata Portal: CORDIS opendata.