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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.
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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.
30
Jul
2021
PS Seminar Series- Immune signalling transduction from TIR-NLR resistance proteins to helper NLR proteins »
Plant resistance proteins act as immune receptors to recognise pathogen effectors and activate defense.
28
Jul
2021
PS Webinar Series- PhD Exit Seminar : From cradle to grave: Regulation of plant stress responses through RNA metabolism »
As the intermediary between DNA and proteins, RNA has a major regulatory role in gene expression.
23
Jul
2021
PS Seminar Series - Signals and PerCEPtion: the role of C-Terminally Encoded Peptide 7 (CEP7) in symbiosis »
The rhizobium-legume symbiosis that occurs within root nodules provides a crucial way for legumes to acquire nitrogen under nitrogen limited conditions.
14
Jul
2021
PS Webinar Series: Anatomical arrangement of Sorghum leaves under high growth temperatures »
Intrinsic water use efficiency (iWUE) is an important trait that influences crop productivity.
07
Jul
2021
PS Webinar Series: Figuring out Stumpy- getting to the root of the problem »
In a screen for root mutants of wheat we targeted long hairs as a desirable trait to improve the efficiency of phosphate uptake from soil.
16
Jun
2021
PS Seminar Series - Stress dependent mRNA usage, a genome uncoupled acclimation mechanism? »
Stress dependent usage of specific mRNAs is a common process in post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression.
