Weeding the Gems

The four-yearly Auxin Workshop (#Auxin2020) will take place in Cavtat, Croatia between October 4th-8th 2020. https://auxin2020.weebly.com/ This workshop brings together established group leaders and early career researchers to discuss the latest developments in research that is linked to the ubiquitous phytohormone auxin. Workshop highlights: – Seven plenary sessions featuring twenty-eight invited speakers – Twenty-eight places[…]

The PhenomUK network is into its second year of operating supported by the UKRI Technology Touching Life scheme. PhenomUK focuses on how technological developments in plant phenotyping can impact agricultural productivity for the benefit of UK and global food production. Despite being early in its four-year funding cycle PhenomUK has a growing mailing list, social[…]

After a 10 year hiatus, the Genetics Society Arabidopsis Meeting is back with a two-day meeting on the 21st and 22nd of April, 2020 at the department of Biosciences at Durham University On April 20th we have have added a FREE GARNet-supported hands-on workshop on rice transformation. The lab-based workshop, led by rice transformation expert[…]

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! http://blog.garnetcommunity.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Parker_etal_200130_editb-30012020-12.55.mp3Podcast: Play in[…]

This latest edition of the GARNet Research Roundup begins with two studies that look at different aspects of lateral root formation and include members of Malcolm Bennett’s lab in Nottingham. The first investigates a critical role for hydropatterning in the control of lateral root initiation whilst the second looks at how cell death in overlying[…]

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‘. http://blog.garnetcommunity.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Shahzad_200124_edit-28012020-16.40.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS

Take home Message: COST Activities are open for everyone* Since its inception, the European COST programme has operated according to one main instrument, the COST Action. COST Actions are organised by a range of networking tools, such as meetings, conferences, workshops, short-term scientific missions, training schools, publications and dissemination activities. Funding supports COST Action networking[…]

The first GARNet Research Roundup of 2020 begins with a study from the University of Dundee at the James Hutton Institute in which they have adapted nanopore direct sequencing to analyse the Arabidopsis mRNA methylome. The second study is also from Dundee and is an analysis of alternative splicing in C4 sugarcane. The next two[…]

Taken from the John Innes Centre Dame Helen Mirren has helped renew efforts to keep plant disease Xylella fastidiosa out of the UK in 2020 – the UN’s International Year of Plant Health – narrating a new animation that warns of the devastation it causes, including the death of millions of olive trees in Europe.[…]

On 27th/28th February we will be holding the inaugural UK Rice Consortium meeting for Early Career Researchers. This short meeting will be focussed on providing a forum for all postdocs and PhD students involved in rice research projects to come together and exchange ideas and experience on working with rice in the UK. Download Meeting[…]

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