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Plant Biology Seminar Series
Seminars from the RSB Division of Plant Sciences.
10
Feb
2023
3.30pm 10 February 2023
Erin Hill, Solomon Group, Plant Sciences, RSB
Fungal phytopathogens secrete a litany of molecules during their infection of a plant host, including virulence factors like effector proteins. Secreted virulence factors function in the apoplast of host tissues or are trafficked into host cells.
Past events
03
Feb
2023
PS Seminar Series- PhD Exit seminar - The role of plant water relations in the maintenance of hydraulic function in mangroves »
Mangroves provide critical ecosystem services from protection of coastlines and coastal communities, to their role as a carbon sink.
12
Jan
2023
Building, Using and Exploring the Plant Tree of Life »
With half a million species and representing a billion years of evolution, a better understanding of the green plant tree of life is crucial for the survival of humankind.
25
Nov
2022
PS Seminar Series- PhD Exit seminar - An evolutionary and biochemical approach to gain insight into SAL1-PAP retrograde signalling »
Plant acclimation to environmental stress involves complex cellular processes including chloroplast-to-nucleus communication mediated by signals such as 3’-phosphoadenosine 5’-phosphate (PAP) and its catabolic phosphatase, SAL1.
23
Nov
2022
PS Seminar Series - Metabolism and energy bottlenecks in plant vasculature »
Phloem is the vascular tissue in plants - responsible for transporting sugars from source to sink. It is well established that osmotic currents drive the flow of sap through phloem vessels.
04
Nov
2022
PS Seminar Series: Programmable TALE-based DNA binding domains and their biotechnological application »
Transcription activator-like effectors (TALEs) are Type-III-effector proteins mainly found in phytopathogenic Xanthomonas species.
02
Nov
2022
PS Seminar Series: Photosynthesis in the polar oceans »
Oceans cover 70% of the Earth’s surface, play a vital role in global climate and are home to varied and productive ecosystems.
26
Oct
2022
PS PhD Exit Seminar: Tree structure and carbon cycling in a tropical rainforest under long-term drought »
Tropical forests are highly productive and biodiverse, exchanging more carbon with the atmosphere than any other terrestrial ecosystem and representing the apex of taxonomic and structural diversity on land.
21
Oct
2022
PS Seminar Series: Unraveling drought stress response mechanisms in the interaction peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) - Bradyrhizobium sp. »
The research line is devoted to the study of the interaction between peanuts and beneficial microorganisms.
12
Oct
2022
PS Seminar Series - Phi thickenings in roots - A mechanism that mechanically strengthens the growing primary root? »
Phi thickenings are peculiar secondary cell wall thickenings that form reinforcing bands around the radial walls of cortical cells in plant roots, a location where only a primary cell wall would normally be found.
30
Sep
2022
PS Seminar Series - Progress in wheat yield at CIMMYT: past and future »
This seminar begins with the three and a half fold increase in the farm yield of irrigated wheat from 1960 to 2019 in NW Mexico, the homebase of the CIMMYT wheat breeding program
28
Sep
2022
PS Seminar Series: Chromatin structure and DNA methylation as drivers of intraspecies genome variability and evolution in a fungal plant pathogen »
The ability to rapidly adapt to changing environments, especially to artificial environments created by industrial agriculture and modern medicine, is crucial for the success of pathogens infecting plants and animals.
21
Sep
2022
PS Seminar Series: Translational Research in Agriculture. How Does It Work? »
‘Translational research’ became an increasingly common term when it was realised that much agriculturally inspired basic research failed to contribute to the improvement of crops.
31
Aug
2022
PS Seminar Series: mRNA decay in plants: pathway specificity, redundancy, and compensation »
The steady-state mRNA abundance is an outcome of transcript synthesis counter-balanced by turnover.
26
Aug
2022
RESCHEDULED PS Seminar Series: Xylem - phloem interactions during electrical signalling in wounded plants »
Slow wave potentials propagate from sites of damage to distal leaves in wounded plants.
19
Aug
2022
PS PhD Exit Seminar: Pathways to engineer plant Rubisco »
In plants, Rubisco is responsible for the assimilation of CO2 during photosynthesis.
