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Plant Biology Seminar Series
Seminars from the RSB Division of Plant Sciences.
12
Oct
2022
12pm 12 October 2022
Assoc Professor David Collings, The University of Newcastle
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.
21
Oct
2022
11am 21 October 2022
Ana Laura Furlan, Postdoc, CONCIET and National University of Rio Cuarto (Córdoba, Argentina)
The research line is devoted to the study of the interaction between peanuts and beneficial microorganisms.
Past events
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.
12
Aug
2022
PS Seminar Series - Reprogramming plants: Building gene circuits to alter plant function »
Plant biotechnology predominantly relies on a restricted set of genetic parts with limited capability to customize spatiotemporal and conditional expression patterns.
08
Jul
2022
PS Seminar Series - When to open or close the door: exploring cell-to-cell communication via plasmodesmata closure in stress signalling »
Cell-to-cell communication is essential for the co-ordination of responses in all multicellular organisms. One mechanism plants employ as defence against pathogens is restriction of cell-to-cell communication by plasmodesmata closure during infection.
01
Jul
2022
PhD Exit Seminar - TRUEE; a bioinformatic pipeline to define the functional microRNA targetome of plants »
In plants, microRNAs (miRNAs) are short non-coding RNAs of approximately 20-24 nt in length which are involved in post-transcriptional regulation of genes controlling many fundamental biological pathways.
24
Jun
2022
PS Seminar Series - Fun with Fungi at the Chemistry-Biology Interface »
Specialised metabolites are one of the major means of how microbes and sessile organisms express extended phenotype for the selective advantage of the organisms —or, more fundamentally, their genes.
17
Jun
2022
PS Seminar Series - Feeding the world while restoring the planet »
Natural capital describes the stocks of renewable and non-renewable resources (e.g. plants, animals, air, water, soils and minerals) that produce flows of benefits to people.
10
Jun
2022
PS Seminar Series - Coupling carbon allocation & sugar signaling with development for yield & resilience »
Source-to-sink allocation of, and sink-to-sink competition for, photoassimilates, mainly in the form of sucrose, play a key role in determining energy and resource distribution in plants for growth and reproduction.
27
May
2022
PS Seminar Series- PhD Exit Seminar - How does scald pathogen infect barley? Characterisation of the virulence factors of Rhynchosporium commune »
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.
25
May
2022
PS Seminar Series - Gene regulatory dynamics of germinating seeds from bulk tissue to single-cell resolution »
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.
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.
