Plant Sciences Seminar Series
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Seminars from the RSB Division of Plant Sciences.
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Plants detect invading pathogens using immune receptors that are located both inside the cell and at its surface. Structural and biochemical studies have transformed our understanding of how intracellular immune receptors recognise effector proteins secreted by pathogens. But far less is known about how plant cell-surface receptors recognise effectors in the apoplast – the space outside the plant cell where many fungal pathogens colonise their hosts.
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This seminar will outline a predictive modelling research theme and highlight recent examples integrating physiology, phenotyping and genetics to evaluate potential interventions and guide crop adaptation.
Chloroplast-to-nucleus retrograde signaling has long been understood through transcriptional lenses, but growing evidence points to translational control as an equally decisive layer
My PhD project aims to develop and apply novel screening methodologies to improve the identification and characterisation of heat-tolerant wheat genotypes.
Climate change is quickly reshaping the environments in which wheat is cultivated, challenging global food security through increasing temperatures, heat stress, and unpredictable climatic variability.
Growing water-scarcity under climate change makes cost-effective water saving interventions in agriculture crucial for sustaining crop yields.
There is growing industry interest to develop the allotetraploid oilseed Brassica carinata for the production of sustainable aviation fuel.
Estimations of the gross primary productivity (GPP) of land ecosystems are key to accurately predict the global carbon cycle.
As the key enzyme responsible for inorganic carbon uptake in most photosynthetic organisms, Rubisco exhibits poor catalytic activity and reacts promiscuously with oxygen, limiting the rate of photosynthesis. To offset this limitation, many photosynthetic organisms have evolved carbon-concentrating mechanisms (CCMs) that saturate CO2 near Rubisco, maintaining enzyme function and suppressing oxygenation.
Global food security is under constant threat from plant diseases. The evolutionary arms race between the plants and pathogens remains ongoing.
Transitioning to renewable fuel oils is essential for replacing fossil fuels, promoting environmental sustainability and improving human health.
Chloroplasts can sense environmental fluctuations via Ca2+ signaling. Environmental triggers, such as light changes, physical damage and heat waves, can induce distinct Ca2+ signatures in chloroplasts, which may help rebalance photosynthesis and stress responses under fluctuating conditions.
This talk will revisit and contextualise the invasion predicted by Cellarius within a framework of biosecurity risk assessment.