Instituut Plantenbiotechnologie voor Ontwikkelingslanden

(IPBO)

Institute Plant Biotechnology for Developing Countries

IPBO was created in 2000 under the impulse of Professor Emeritus Dr. Marc Van Montagu of the Department of Molecular Genetics of  Ghent University.

IPBO has as a mission of  training and technology transfer and of  stimulating developing countries to establish their own competetive plant biotechnology research. IPBO assists institutions and reseachers in developing countries find the right partners to develop strategies to solve specific agricultural problems.

IPBO's research programs are oriented to the needs of developing countries and focus on agricultural productivity and biodiversity. Its initial projects are directed towards nutritional improvement of beans, and the response of rice to flooding.  

IPBO's director, Prof. Dr. Godelieve Gheysen is a prolific scholar who will play a key role in the BTN project by supervising research activities aimed at developing a database of AFLP^® markers for bamboos.   Her publications include:

GHEYSEN G, FENOLL F. Gene expression in nematode feeding sites. Annual Review of Phytopathology vol 40, in press (2002)

Karimi M, DE OLIVEIRA MANES C.‑L, VAN MONTAGU M, GHEYSEN G. Activation of a Pgrp‑gus fusion in Arabidopsis thaliana roots upon nematode infection. J. Nematol: in press (2002).

Vercauteren I, DE GROODT R, DE ALMEIDA ENGLER J, GHEYSEN G. An Arabidopsis thaliana pectin acetylesterase gene is upregulated in nematode feeding sites induced by root‑knot and cyst nematodes. Mol. Plant‑Microbe Interact: in press (2002)

DE MEUTTER, J., VANHOLME, B., BAUW, G., TYTGAT, T., GHEYSEN, G.D.C., GHEYSEN, G.D.R. (2001) Preparation and sequencing of secreted proteins from the pharyngeal glands of the plant parasitic nematode Heterodera schachtii. Molecular Plant Pathology 2, 297-301

Vercauteren, I, Van der Schueren, E, Van Montagu, M, Gheysen, G. Arabidopsis thaliana genes expressed in the early compatible interaction with root-knot nematodes. MPMI 14, 14:288‑99 (2001).

Goverse, A., de Almeida Engler, J., Verhees, J., van der Krol, S., Helder, J., Gheysen, G. Cell cycle activation by plant parasitic nematodes. Plant Mol. Biol., 43: 747-761 (2000).

Karimi, M., Van Montagu, M., Gheysen, G. Nematodes as vectors to introduce Agrobacterium into plant roots. Mol. Plant Pathology 1, 6 p 377- 381 (2000).

Tytgat, T., De Meutter, J., Gheysen, G.,  Coomans, A. Sedentary Endoparasitic Nematodes as a Model for Other Plant Parasitic Nematodes. Nematology, vol. 2, n° 1, p113-121 (2000).

PUZIO, P.S., LAUSEN, J., De ALMEIDA ENGLER, J., CAI, D., GHEYSEN., G., and GRUNDLER, F.M.W. Isolation of a gene from Arabidopsis thaliana related to nematode feeding structures. Gene 239, 163-172 (1999).

KARIMI, M., VAN MONTAGU, M., and GHEYSEN, G. Hairy root production in Arabidopsis thaliana: cotransformation with a promoter-trap vector results in complex T-DNA integration patterns. Plant Cell Rep. 19, 133-142 (1999).

DE ALMEIDA ENGLER, J., DE VLEESSCHAUWER, V., BURSSENS, S., CELENZA, J.L. Jr, INZÉ, D., VAN MONTAGU, M., ENGLER, G., and GHEYSEN, G. Molecular markers and cell cycle inhibitors show the importance of cell cycle progression in nematode-induced galls and syncytia. Plant Cell 11, 793-807 (1999).

ESCOBAR, C., VAN DER EYCKEN, W., ARISTIZÁBAL, SANZ-ALFÉREZ, S., DEL CAMPO, F.F., BARTHELS, N., DE MEUTTER, J., SEURINCK, J., VAN MONTAGU, M., GHEYSEN, G., and FENOLL, C. Cloning and characterisation of the nematode-inducible tomato Lemmi9 gene: expression pattern and identification of protein-binding sites in its promoter. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact., 12:440‑49  (1999).

MOONS, A., GIELEN, J., VANDEKERCKHOVE, J., VAN DER STRAETEN, D., GHEYSEN, G., and VAN MONTAGU, M. An abscisic-acid- and salt-stress-responsive rice cDNA from a novel plant gene family. Planta 202, 443-454 (1997).

BARTHELS, N., VAN DER LEE, F.M., KLAP, J., GODDIJN, O.J.M., KARIMI, M., PUZIO, P., GRUNDLER, F.M.W., OHL, S.A., LINDSEY, K., ROBERTSON, L., ROBERTSON, W.M., VAN MONTAGU, M., GHEYSEN, G., and SIJMONS, P.C. Regulatory sequences of Arabidopsis drive reporter gene expression in nematode feeding structures. Plant Cell 9, 2119-2134 (1997).

GHEYSEN, G. Plant responses to nematodes. Encyclopedia of Plant and Crop Science.  Professor Robert M. Goodman, Editor. Marcel Dekker, inc.  In druk 2002.

Gheysen, G. (R)evolutions in our understanding of plant-nematode interactions. In Volume V "Biotechnology for Plant Breeding and Protection" of the Series "Focus on Biotechnology" produced by Kluwer Academic Publishers. Eds Marcel Hofman and Jozef Anne, in druk (2002).

Gheysen, G.,  Abad, P.,  Bleve, T.,  Blok, V.,  Fenoll, C.,  Gatehouse, J.A.,  Grundler, F., Lindsey, K., Ohl, S.,  Sagen, K.,  Shields, R., Helder, J. Concerted efforts to develop handles for plant parasitic nematode control. In "Phytosfere '99 - Highlights in european Plant Biotechnology" Gert E. De Vries and Karin Metzlaff (Eds.) Elsevier Science B.V., p 159 - 167 (2000).

GHEYSEN, G., De ALMEIDA ENGLER, J., and VAN MONTAGU, M. Development of nematode-induced feeding cells in Arabidopsis roots: how important is the cell cycle? In "Biology of Plant-Microbe interactions", Vol 2, P.J.G.M. de Wit, T. Bisseling, and W.J. Stiekema (Eds.). St. Paul, MN, International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, pp. 93-98 (ISBN 0-9654625-1-X) (2000).

GHEYSEN, G. Chemical signals in the plant-nematode interaction: a complex system? In Phytochemical Signals and Plant-Microbe Interactions, (Recent Advances in Phytochemistry, Vol. 32), J.T. Romeo, K.R. Downum, and R. Verpoorte (Eds.). New York, Plenum Press, pp. 95-117 (1998).

GHEYSEN, G., ANGENON, G., and VAN MONTAGU, M. Agrobacterium-mediated plant transformation: a scientifically intriguing story with significant applications. In Transgenic Plant Research, K. Lindsey (Ed.). Amsterdam, Harwood Academic Publishers, pp. 1-33 (1998).

GHEYSEN, G., DE ALMEIDA ENGLER, J., and VAN MONTAGU, M. Cell cycle regulation in nematode feeding sites. In Cellular and Molecular Aspects of Plant-Nematode Interactions, (Developments in Plant Pathology, Vol. 10), C. Fenoll, F.M.W. Grundler, and S.A. Ohl (Eds.). Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 120-132 (1997).