Weeding the Gems

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! http://blog.garnetcommunity.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Nibau_Edit2-24032020-12.19.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS

In 2000 the sequencing of the Arabidopsis thaliana genome was the starting gun for a new era in plant biology research. The remarkable community-facing tools that have been developed with a focus on this model organism include TAIR, the BAR and the 1001 Genomes project and have greatly benefited many researchers around the world. Numerous[…]

This edition of the GARNet Research Roundup begins with research from Durham University that links environmental sensing, SUMOylation and BR signaling. The second paper is from the Baulcombe lab in Cambridge and investigates the epigenetic control of transposons. The third paper is from Aberystwyth University and introduces the DeepPod learning framework for the automated counting[…]

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[…]

            Rice is a major global food crop with an estimated 3.5 billion people taking 20% of their calories from different species of this grass. As such there are many scientific and international development reasons why UK researchers should conduct rice research, even though it is very unlikely to be ever grown commercially in this[…]

2nd Call for Funding – Deadline March 27th 2020 PhenomUK can fund small (£5-25k) preliminary and feasibility studies, following a light internal review process. This funding is intended to allow recipients to assess emerging technologies against phenotyping tasks and perform initial investigations of promising technology combinations. With the emergence of powerful machine learning approaches, annotated[…]

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‘. http://blog.garnetcommunity.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Lambing_200224_edit-25022020-15.43.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS

THE COMMUNITY RESOURCE FOR WHEAT AND RICE TRANSFORMATION is a resource for UK plant scientists to apply for their genes to be transformed into wheat or rice free of charge, funded by the BBSRC’s Biological and Bioinformatic Resources fund (BBR). THE 2ND ROUND OF THE APPLICATION PROCESS IS OPEN UNTIL 31ST MARCH 2020 for transformation[…]

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 weeks GARNet Research Roundup begins with two studies that characterize the role of proteins that are involved in the control of meiotic recombination. The first study is from the Henderson lab at the University of Cambridge and investigates the role of the REC8 protein whilst the second is from John Doonan’s group at Aberystwyth[…]

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