By GARNet UK Plant Science Roundup
the GARNet community blog
Marcel Bach-Pages works with Gail Preston at the University of Oxford and we discuss a new protocol to identify the RNA-Binding Proteome from Arabidopsis leaves. This community-focused work includes full instructions for use of the protocol and they provide an...
Christos Velanis works at the University of Edinburgh and discusses work published in PloS Genetics entitled ‘The domesticated transposase ALP2 mediates formation of a novel Polycomb protein complex by direct interaction with MSI1, a core subunit of Polycomb Repressive Complex...
Al Ware (University of Nottingham) and Catriona Walker (University of Leeds) discuss a recent paper published in Nature Plants entitled ‘Auxin export from proximal fruits drives arrest in temporally competent inflorescences’. We chat about auxin, mind-numbing phenotyping and local arrest...
Nicol Caplin who worked at the University of the West of England discusses a paper in Frontier in Plant Science entitled ‘Developmental, Morphological and Physiological Traits in Plants Exposed for Five Generations to Chronic Low-Level Ionising Radiation‘. Nicol nows work...
Sam Wilson from Queen Mary University of London discusses a recent paper in Plant Physiology entitled ‘Rethinking the influence of chloroplast movements on non-photochemical quenching and photoprotection‘. In this research they take a fresh look at the relationship between chloroplast...
Naresh Loudya from Royal Holloway University of London discusses a recent paper published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B entitled ‘Retrograde signalling in a virescent mutant triggers an anterograde delay of chloroplast biogenesis that requires GUN1 and...
Andre Kuhn works with Lars Ostergaard at the John Innes Centre and discusses a recent Elife paper entitled ‘Direct ETTIN-auxin interaction controls chromatin states in gynoecium development‘. We discuss a new paradigm for auxin perception in the control gene expression.
Bethany Eldridge and Tom Denbigh are co-first authors on a recent paper in Communications Biology entitled ‘Micro-scale interactions between Arabidopsis root hairs and soil particles influence soil erosion‘. We discuss the innovative experimental procedures that they designed to measure the...
Chris Morgan who works at the John Innes Centre discusses a recent PNAS paper entitled ‘Derived alleles of two axis proteins affect meiotic traits in autotetraploid Arabidopsis arenosa‘. We discuss the technical challenges of this research as well as the...
Ludi Wang and Maurice Bosch work at Aberystwyth University and talk to the GARNet Community podcast about a recent paper in JXBot entitled ‘New opportunities and insights into Papaver self-incompatibility by imaging engineered Arabidopsis pollen‘. We discuss the challenges of...
Candida Nibau who works at Aberystwyth University discusses a paper recently published in The Plant Cell entitailed ‘CDKG1 Is Required for Meiotic and Somatic Recombination Intermediate Processing in Arabidopsis‘. We discuss this and plenty of other exciting future work! Please...
We talk to Anne-Marie Labandera from the University of Birmingham about a new paper published in New Phytologist entitled ‘The PRT6 N-degron pathway restricts VERNALIZATION 2 to endogenous hypoxic niches to modulate plant development‘. This adds to the story introduced...
Christophe Lambing from the University of Cambridge talks to GARNet about a paper in The Plant Cell entitled ‘Interacting genomic landscapes of REC8-cohesin, chromatin and meiotic recombination in Arabidopsis thaliana‘.
Rea Antoniou-Kourounioti works with Martin Howard and Caroline Dean at the John Innes Centre and we discuss a recent paper in Genes and Development entitled ‘Noncoding SNPs influence a distinct phase of Polycomb silencing to destabilize long-term epigenetic memory at...
This research team from the Simpson lab at the James Hutton Institute, University of Dundee discuss a recent paper published in elife entitled ‘Nanopore direct RNA sequencing maps the complexity of Arabidopsis mRNA processing and m6A modification. Apologies for the...
Zaigham Shahzad who works with Anna Amtmann at the University of Glasgow chats to GARNet about a paper published in Nature Communications entitled ‘Cryptic variation in RNA-directed DNA-methylation controls lateral root development when auxin signalling is perturbed‘.
David Seung who is a new group leader the John Innes Centre talks to GARNet about a paper in Plant Physiology entitled ‘Natural polymorphisms in Arabidopsis result in wide variation or loss of the amylose component of starch‘. This fascinating...
Chiara Airoldi talks to GARNet about her recent paper published in Nature Plants entitled ‘TTG1 proteins regulate circadian activity as well as epidermal cell fate and pigmentation’. This work was conducted at the University of Cambridge in the labs of...
Waqas Khokhar from Canterbury Christ Church University in Kent talks to GARNet about a new publication in Frontiers in Plant Science on ‘Genome-Wide Identification of Splicing Quantitative Trait Loci (sQTLs) in Diverse Ecotypes of Arabidopsis thaliana‘. Waqas has produced a...
Steven Spoel discusses a recent paper published in Elife entitled ‘ Dynamic ubiquitination determines transcriptional activity of the plant immune coactivator NPR1‘. This paper characterises the molecular fine-tuning that controls the transcriptional outputs and degradation of the NPR1 protein, which...
Saskia Hogenhout from the John Innes Centre discusses her labs recent paper in PLOS Pathogens titled ‘Phytoplasma SAP11 effector destabilization of TCP transcription factors differentially impact development and defence of Arabidopsis versus maize‘. We also briefly discuss her international collaborations...
Dr Paige Panter talks to GARNet about her PhD research conducted at the University of Durham. This paper is published in New Phytologist and is titled ‘MUR1-mediated cell-wall fucosylation is required for freezing tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana‘. Paige is currently...
Janneke Balk from the John Innes Centre discusses a recent paper from PNAS titled ‘Arabidopsis BRUTUS-LIKE E3 ligases negatively regulate iron uptake by targeting transcription factor FIT for recycling‘. Thanks for discussion and good luck on gaining the follow-on funding...
Mike Bevan from the John Innes Centre talks to GARNet about a paper published in The Plant Cell titled ‘Variation in expression of the HECT E3 ligase UPL3 modulates LEC2 levels, seed size and crop yield in Brassica napus‘. Thanks...
Fiona Belbin from the University of Bristol talks to GARNet about a paper published in Nature Communcations titled ‘Plant circadian rhythms regulate the effectiveness of a glyphosate-based herbicide‘. Good luck to Fiona defending her PhD thesis sometime soon…. 25/9/19
Dana MacGregor from Rothamsted Research talks to GARNet about a paper published in The Plant Journal titled ‘ICE1 and ZOU determine the depth of primary seed dormancy in Arabidopsis independently of their role in endosperm development‘. We also discussed the...
Michael Skelly from the University of Edinburgh talks to GARNet about a paper published in PNAS titled ‘A role for S-nitrosylation of the SUMO-conjugating enzyme SCE1 in plant immunity‘. Thanks Mike! 11/9/19
Charlotte Kirchhelle from the University of Oxford discusses her new paper published in Elife titled ‘Two mechanisms regulate directional cell growth in Arabidopsis lateral roots‘. Thanks to Charlotte for the fun discussion! 4/9/19
Welcome to the relaunch of the GARNet Community podcast! We aim to send out a short weekly podcast in which we chat to a researcher about a latest publication. These will be audio-only podcast without any associated YouTube video. Over...
John Christie discusses a recent paper just published in Plant Physiology entitled ‘De-etiolation Enhances Phototropism by Modulating NON-PHOTOTROPIC HYPOCOTYL 3 Phosphorylation Status‘.
Martin van Rongen who works with Ottoline Leyser in the Sainsbury Lab Cambridge discusses a recent paper published in PLoS Genetics entitled ‘Connective auxin transport contributes to strigolactone-mediated shoot branching control independent of the transcription factor BRC1‘.
GARNet committee member Sarah McKim talks to GARNet about a recent paper published in New Phytologist entitled ‘Interaction between row-type genes in barley controls meristem determinacy and reveals novel routes to improved grain‘.
Hank describes a recent paper published in the Journal of Cell Science entitled ‘Identification and characterization of genes encoding the nuclear envelope LINC complex in the monocot species Zea mays’. This paper also includes fellow INDEPTH member Katja Graumann from...
Daniel Gibbs discusses a recent paper published in Nature Communications entitled ‘Oxygen-dependent proteolysis regulates the stability of angiosperm polycomb repressive complex 2 subunit VERNALIZATION 2‘
Malcolm Bennett discussed a recent publication in Science entitled ‘Root branching toward water involves posttranslational modification of transcription factor ARF7‘.
GARNet talked to Professor Ari Sadanandom from Durham University about a recent paper published in The Plant Cell entitled ‘SUMO Suppresses the Activity of the Jasmonic Acid Receptor CORONATINE INSENSITIVE 1‘
Jill Harrison discusses a recent Current Biology paper entitled ‘CLAVATA Was a Genetic Novelty for the Morphological Innovation of 3D Growth in Land Plants‘
Eirini Kaiserli talks to GARNet about a recent open access paper in PNAS entitled ‘ZINC-FINGER interactions mediate transcriptional regulation of hypocotyl growth in Arabidopsis‘.
Ranjan Swarup (University of Nottingham) discusses a couple of recent papers published in Nature Communications that describe the relationship between phosphate and auxin signaling in the roots of Arabidopsis and rice plants. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03851-3 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03850-4
Charles Melnyk discusses a new paper published in PNAS that describes the molecular events that occur during grafting. The paper is entitled ‘Transcriptome dynamics at Arabidopsis graft junctions reveal an intertissue recognition mechanism that activates vascular regeneration‘
Henrik Jonsson and Benoit Landrien discuss their new PNAS paper entitled ‘Nitrate modulates stem cell dynamics in Arabidopsis shoot meristems through cytokinins‘. Grafting image taken from Charles Melynk
Enrique Lopez-Juez (Royal Holloway University of London) introduces a paper from that attempts to answer a critical question in plant science ‘Why do plants makes leaves in the dark‘? http://www.plantphysiol.org/content/early/2017/12/28/pp.17.01730.long
Devin O’Connor discusses auxin, PINs and protein instrinic qualities during our discussion of his recent eLife paper entitled ‘Cross-species functional diversity within the PIN auxin efflux protein family’. https://elifesciences.org/articles/31804 https://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/research/oconnor-group
Anthony Dodd (Universit of Bristol) talks to GARNet about a recent paper published in Plant Physiology entitled ‘The energy-signalling hub SnRK1 is important for sucrose-induced hypocotyl elongation‘.
Andrew Fleming (University of Sheffield) talks to GARNet about a recent paper published in Current Biology entitled ‘Stomatal Opening Involves Polar, Not Radial, Stiffening Of Guard Cells’. http://www.cell.com/current-biology/references/S0960-9822(17)3101 Andrew also talked to GARNet last year about a paper about stomatal...
Daniel Pass (Cardiff University) discusses his recent paper published in PLoS Genetics entitled ‘Genome-wide chromatin mapping with size resolution reveals a dynamic sub- nucleosomal landscape in Arabidopsis’. Dan highlights his Github page where the code for the novel graphics in...
Miriam Gifford talks to GARNet about a recent Large Scale Biology paper in The Plant Cell entitled ‘Root architecture shaping by the environment is orchestrated by dynamic gene expression in space and time’. http://www.plantcell.org/content/early/2017/09/11/tpc.16.00961 More on the eFP browser here:...
Emily Larson from the University of Glasgow talks clathrin, balloons and the publication process as part in our discussion about her recent Plant Physiology paper entitled ‘Clathrin Heavy Chain subunits coordinate endo- and exocytic traffic and affect stomatal movement‘.
Veronica Grieneisen (John Innes Centre) shows much excitement for her science as we discuss a recent PNAS paper entitled ‘Auxin minimum triggers the developmental switch from cell division to cell differentiation in the Arabidopsis root’ http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/08/17/1705833114.abstract https://www.jic.ac.uk/directory/veronica-grieneisen/
Lars Ostergaard has an enthusuastic discussion with GARNet about his groups recent paper published in The Plant Cell entitled: Auxin-Induced Modulation of ETTIN Activity Orchestrates Gene Expression in Arabidopsis’. http://www.plantcell.org/content/early/2017/08/13/tpc.17.00389 https://www.jic.ac.uk/directory/lars-ostergaard/ Find his discussion about a previous paper here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POWspYw6aXs
