Weeding the Gems

This edition of the GARNet research roundup begins with a paper from Jose Gutierrez-Marcos’ lab in Warwick that investigates the functional significance of inherited epigenetics marks in clonally propagated plants. Second is work from Sara Simonini and Lars Ostergaard (John Innes Centre) that defines a domain in the ETTIN protein important for the auxin response.[…]

The final annual meeting in Phase I of the BBSRC-funded HVCfP NIBB network was held on October 1st in the delightful Royal College of Physicians, close to Regents Park in London. This single day meeting was a byte-size mix of invited talks and those provided by researchers who had received Proof of Concept (PoC) or[…]

Andrew Millar (University of Edinburgh) speaks at the GARNet2018 conference about ‘Being more Open by being more Productive’

The latest GARNet Research Roundup includes two papers led by Cyril Zipfel from The Sainsbury lab, Norwich (who has since moved his lab to the University of Zurich). The first paper demonstrates the potential for cross-species strategies for developing disease resistance whilst the second is a phosphoproteomic dissection of the BAK1 immune co-receptor. Third is[…]

GARNet talked to Professor Ari Sadanandom from Durham University about a recent paper published in The Plant Cell entitled ‘SUMO Suppresses the Activity of the Jasmonic Acid Receptor CORONATINE INSENSITIVE 1‘ http://blog.garnetcommunity.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Sadanandom_180903.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS

This week’s GARNet research roundup highlights outstanding science from across the UK. First are a group of three papers led by researchers in Cambridge and Bristol that investigate the role of either sugar or calcium signaling on control of the plant circadian clock. Secondly is work from Durham that provides an elegant link between SUMOylation[…]

There are three papers in this week’s GARNet research roundup. The first paper is led by Jill Harrison’s lab in Bristol and she also provides an audio description of this work that has characterised a role for CLAVATA genes in the transition from 2D to 3D plant growth. The second paper from Ian Graham’s lab[…]

Jill Harrison discusses a recent Current Biology paper entitled ‘CLAVATA Was a Genetic Novelty for the Morphological Innovation of 3D Growth in Land Plants‘ http://blog.garnetcommunity.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Harrison_180806.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS

This GARNet research roundup includes papers that feature a number of different research areas. Firstly is work from Glasgow that investigates the photoactivation of the UVR8 light receptor. Second is work from the University of Cambridge that links the activity of the BIG protein to the circadian oscillator. The next paper has co-authors from Cambridge[…]

The European Court GMO directive, published in 2001, makes it extremely challenging to have genetically modified (GM) crops approved for growth in EU member countries. The financial and time-costs required to develop these crop varieties mean that only one such crop, an insect resistant GM maize, is grown in small amounts in Spain. There is[…]

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