This weeks UK Arabidopsis Research Roundup includes three papers
featuring researchers from the University of Nottingham as well as
manuscripts from Leeds, Lancaster, QMUL and The Sainsburys Lab in
Norwich
Firstly Stefan Kepinski (Leeds) leads a study that investigates how
Gravitropic Set Point Angle (GSA) is controlled in response to different
growth factors. Stefan discusses this paper on the GARNet YouTube page:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsz5L4QjLFk
Secondly are two Methods papers featuring researchers from CPIB in
Nottingham, the first of which is in collaboration with Lancaster
University and introduces the Microphentron, which is an automated
phenotyping platform that can be used for chemical biology screens. The
second paper describes a non-destructive method for imaging floral
tissues using CT scanning.
Ranjan Swarup is also a member of CPIB and in the next paper he has
collaborated with French colleagues to investigate the role of SHR on
root development in rice.
The fourth paper includes Cyril Zipfel as a co-author and investigates
the role of damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) in the response
to pathogen attack whereas this weeks final paper is from the lab of
Alexander Ruban (QMUL) and discovers the phenotypic consequences of
persistent damage to PSII by photoinhibition.
More details can be found here:
http://blog.garnetcommunity.org.uk/arabidopsis-research-roundup-march-17th/
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