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Plant Biology Seminar Series
Seminars from the RSB Division of Plant Sciences.
29
Mar
2023
12pm 29 March 2023
Nijat Imin, Assoc Professor Intensive Food Production, Western Sydney University
Nitrogen is a key determinant of crop productivity as the acquisition of nitrogen is crucial for photosynthesis and growth.
31
Mar
2023
3.30pm 31 March 2023
Pravin Khambalkar, PhD candidate Jones Group - Disease resistance
Fungal pathogens of crop plants are a major cause for yield loss and a critical concern for global food security.
06
Apr
2023
12pm 6 April 2023
Assoc Professor Danielle Way - Way Group - Plant Ecophysiology and Global Change Biology
Rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations could reach >1000 ppm by 2100, increasing global temperatures 3-4 °C. Both elevated CO2 and warming affect photosynthesis, altering plant growth, survival, and crop yield and quality.
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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.
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.
