GARNet UK Plant Science Roundup

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 have a listen!

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 in a 2019 Nature Communications paper that we discussed with Dan Gibbs on the GARNet[...]

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 Arabidopsis FLC‘. It’s the latest episode in exciting saga that seeks to explain the regulation[...]

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 poor sound quality of the transmission coming down the line from Dundee!

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 paper attempts to begin to answer a key question in plant science: Why do they[...]

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 Beverly Glover and Alex Webb and brings together a fascinating evolutionary story of gene family[...]

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 really exciting dataset that will be of great use to many other researchers!

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 is a key player in the plant immune response. Thanks to Steven for the really[...]