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Plant Biology Seminar Series
Seminars from the RSB Division of Plant Sciences.
25
May
2022
4pm 25 May 2022
A/Prof Mathew G. Lewsey - Co-Deputy Director, ARC Research Hub for Medicinal Agriculture, La Trobe University, Melbourne Australia
Seeds provide 70% of global food resources, being the most valuable output from plant production. They also play a critical role in agriculture because the lifecycle of most crops begins from seed germination.
27
May
2022
3.30pm 27 May 2022
Reynaldi Darma, PhD Student, Solomon Group, RSB, ANU
Rhynchosporium commune is a pathogenic fungus causing barley scald disease. Although scald disease has become a significant issue for commercial barley growers, the molecular mechanisms underpinning the disease are poorly understood.
Past events
20
May
2022
PS Seminar Series- PhD Exit Seminar- Tales of mitochondria: How have the roles of mitochondria in C4 plants affected respiratory metabolism? »
C4 photosynthesis involves a number of biochemical and anatomical traits that significantly improve plant productivity under conditions that reduce the efficiency of C3 photosynthesis.
18
May
2022
PS Seminar Series - Right place, right time: Connecting soil Nitrogen and plant uptake for greener agriculture »
Nitrogen (N) is a primary nutrient that is essential to the survival of all living organisms. Crops are inefficient in their N use, losing 50-70% of applied N, which transforms to reactive nitrogen Nr, to the environment.
29
Apr
2022
PS Seminar Series- PhD Exit Seminar- Defining interaction partners for CEPR1, a key regulator of root growth and nutrient transport in Arabidopsis »
The interaction of C-TERMINALLY ENCODED PEPTIDEs (CEPs) with CEP RECEPTOR1 (CEPR1) controls root growth and development, as well as nitrate uptake, but the underlying protein interactions involved are yet to be comprehensively defined.
29
Apr
2022
PS Seminar Series- JOINT SEMINAR - Exploring a new pathway for crown root development »
Crown roots make up the bulk of the mature root system in grasses and are essential for anchorage and water and nutrient absorption.
29
Apr
2022
PS Seminar Series- JOINT SEMINAR - Moisture-regulated root branching »
Plants that exhibit moisture-regulated root branching, called hydropatterning, are able to detect spatial differences in water distribution around their root growth zone, which leads to pre-patterning of lateral root primordia towards regions of higher water availability.
22
Apr
2022
PS Seminar Series- PhD Exit Seminar- The flax-rust AvrP protein appears to be a bifunctional effector targeting both glucose and RNA metabolism in flax »
Rust diseases are a serious threat to cereals and other crops worldwide. The interaction between flax and the flax rust fungus, Melampsora lini, is a model pathosystem helping us to understand the molecular basis of rust fungal pathogenicity in plants.
30
Mar
2022
PS Seminar Series- Enhancing Rubisco catalysis improves plant growth »
The rate of photosynthesis and plant growth is often rate limited by the activity of the CO2-fixing enzyme Ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase oxygenase (Rubisco).
25
Mar
2022
Joint Seminar : PS Seminar Series - Overview of ARC Discovery Project: Cereal blueprints for a water-limited world »
Plants are sessile organisms and are therefore unable to seek out environmental conditions optimal for their growth and development.
25
Mar
2022
Joint Seminar : PS Seminar Series - Integrating technologies to design future crops »
Plant scientists are in a race against time to adapt modern crops to future environments, many of which are predicted to be hotter and drier.
23
Mar
2022
PS Seminar Series - Creating synthetic gene circuits in plants »
Synthetic gene circuits are a new biotechnological framework for the generation of organisms harbouring user-defined gene expression patterns and other genetic functions.
02
Mar
2022
PS Seminar Series - Salicornia, a halophyte with untapped potential »
Given the global rates of freshwater depletion and the lack of replenishment in many regions including Saudi Arabia, the use of seawater as a primary source of irrigation for cropping may be our only viable option.
25
Feb
2022
PS Seminar Series - Tales from the transcriptome: Characterising FERONIA function through comparative gene expression analysis »
FERONIA (FER) is a plant receptor kinase of many functions, binding to pectin in the cell wall and mediating an astoundingly broad range of plant activities.
11
Feb
2022
PS Seminar Series: Challenges and opportunities in applying imaging and computer vision techniques to plant phenotyping »
Plant phenotyping methodologies have come a long way from manual scoring and destructive characterization to high-throughput imaging techniques.
10
Dec
2021
PS Webinar Series - PhD Exit Seminar: Plant hydration dynamics: measurement and uptake pathways »
Most water fluxes on the land occur through plants via transpiration, and agriculture uses 70% of the water managed by humans.
19
Nov
2021
PS Webinar Series: Can We Breed Crops For Unobserved Future Environments? »
Research interests - Working on developing new methods to combine information from corn, sorghum, and related orphan crops and wild species to identify genetic changes that alter crop traits important to farmers and food traits important to consumers.
