Weeding the Gems

This GARNet research Roundup includes a broad range of topics and contributing institutions. First is a study from TSL that investigates the molecular basis of Arabidopsis and Brassica responses to white rust disease. Second is work from Warwick that uses Arabidopsis as a tool to test genes involved in the evolution of Flax domestication. The[…]

GARNet supported Warren Arinaitwe (Cambridge University PhD Student) to attend the Vector-Borne Diseases meeting at John Innes Centre, Norwich, 3rd -4th December 2018. Meeting report from Warren: I presented a poster (see below) on Cucumber mosaic virus-induced changes on aphid-tomato interactions. The meeting brought together human, animal and plant scientists who shared their findings towards[…]

The North American Arabidopsis Steering Committee (NAASC) is committed to promoting a global plant sciences community that reflects the true diversity of all its members. To further this mission, the NAASC Diversity and Inclusion Task Force has created the DiversifyPlantSci online resource, a list of plant biologists from under-represented groups to reference for speakers, reviewers,[…]

This edition of the GARNet research roundup has an initial focus on the shoot apical meristem. Firstly a study from the University of Birmingham performs network analysis to define the connections that control the global organisation of this tissue. Second is the first of a group of papers involving authors from the Sainsbury Lab, Cambridge[…]

Like that famous sketch about the Romans from Monty Python’s Life of Brian, the contributions of the UK plant science community are often overlooked in favour of (equally worthy) research in cancer or neurobiology. However it is clear from numerous outstanding discoveries and from international citations-rankings that UK plant science is world-leading. It is in[…]

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 Oxford Brookes University. http://blog.garnetcommunity.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Bass_190122-22012019-17.10.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS

The International Arabidopsis Informatics Consortium (IAIC) has existed since 2010 to facilitate the maintenance, development and evolution of informatics tools that primarily support Arabidopsis researchers. They have recently published a White paper on the future of Arabidopsis bioinformatics resources. As we all know the first published plant genome was that of Arabidopsis thaliana in 2000[…]

The inaugural GARNet Research Roundup of 2019 firstly includes a paper from the University of Sheffield that has identified new pericentromeric epigenetic loci that affect the pathogen response. Secondly is a collaboration between researchers in Birmingham, Nottingham and Oxford that has identified a new mode of regulation of the VRN2 protein. Next are two papers[…]

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‘ http://blog.garnetcommunity.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Gibbs_190109-09012019-16.10.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS

As the festive period passes, thoughts turn to warmer times and summer conference plans. GARNet are delighted to provide and administer grants to support attendance at two major upcoming conferences. Royal Microscopy Society Botanical Microscopy 2019. Oxford Brookes University, April 14th-18th 2019. Scientific Organising Committee: Chris Hawes, Beatrice Satiat-Jeunemaitre, Verena Kriechbaumer, Katja Graumann, Louise Hughes,[…]

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