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Plant Biology Seminar Series
Seminars from the RSB Division of Plant Sciences.
01
Jul
2022
3.30pm 1 July 2022
Gigi Wong
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.
08
Jul
2022
3.30pm 8 July 2022
Dr Estee Tee, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, UK
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.
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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.
17
Nov
2021
PS Webinar Series: The necrotrophic effector ToxA from Parastagonospora nodorum interacts with wheat NHL proteins to facilitate Tsn1-mediated necrosis »
The wheat necrotrophic fungal pathogen, Parastagonospora nodorum, secretes effector proteins to manipulate host immunity and promote successful infection.
10
Nov
2021
PS Webinar Series: The cellular biochemistry of the diatom pyrenoid »
The slow kinetics and poor substrate specificity of the key photosynthetic CO2-fixing enzyme Rubisco have prompted the repeated evolution of Rubisco containing compartments known as pyrenoids in diverse algal lineages and carboxysomes in prokaryotes.
29
Oct
2021
PS Webinar Series - PhD Exit Seminar: Using RNAseq to dissect virulence factors of wheat and barley pathogen Bipolaris sorokiniana »
Bipolaris sorokiniana is a hemibiotrophic pathogen causing spot blotch (SB) and common root rot (CRR) in both wheat and barley, and is causal to significant yield and economic losses.
20
Oct
2021
PS Webinar Series: The evolution of cell specific gene expression for C4 photosynthesis »
Prior to the discovery of C4 photosynthesis by Hal Hatch and Roger Slack in 1966 there were clues that some plants partitioned photosynthesis between specific leaf cell types.
13
Oct
2021
PS Transcendence Webinar Series: Quantitative links between gas exchange of leaves and photosynthetic biochemistry »
Mathematical models of leaf photosynthesis provide a mechanistic base for predicting and assessing changes in photosynthetic CO2 fixation in different environments and provide a means of scaling predictions from leaves to canopies and regions.
06
Oct
2021
PS Webinar Series: Exploring the transcriptomic landscape of the root at single-cell resolution »
The root of Arabidopsis thaliana is an excellent model for studying cell differentiation in plants.
24
Sep
2021
PS Webinar Series - PhD Exit Seminar: In the heat of the night: Exploring the influence of night warming on wheat energy metabolism »
With the onset of climate change we have seen ongoing increases in mean global temperature, including a rise in night temperatures that has outpaced the rate of daytime warming.
15
Sep
2021
PS Transcendence Webinar Series: From curiosity to crop yield »
I began my research career investigating the relationship between photosynthesis and nitrogen in the leaves of wheat, mainly out of curiosity.
03
Sep
2021
PS Webinar Series: The ALBAnian RNA-binding landscape »
RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) are critical regulators of gene expression, but have been poorly studied relative to other classes of gene regulators.
11
Aug
2021
PS Seminar Series- Understanding the wheat stem rust resistance immune receptors: from characterization to functional mechanisms »
The emergence of widely virulent Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici (Pgt) races over the past two decades has motivated global efforts to identify effective stem rust (Sr) resistance genes.
