GARNet UK Plant Science Roundup

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 evolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvRfzJwKEqo&t=68s Andrew mentioned the excellent Plant Probes resource during the talk.

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 this paper are held. http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1006988 https://github.com/ChromatinCardiff/DanielPassProcessingPipelines

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: http://bar.utoronto.ca/efp/cgi-bin/efpWeb.cgi

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