Weeding the Gems

By Matthew Dale Rothamsted Research The Monogram meeting is an annual conference where people from all parts of the UK cereal and grass community come together to share the latest advances discovered by academic researchers. The meeting attracts the interest of industrial scientists and plant breeders who are keen to learn about the latest exciting[…]

Written by Marie-Anne Robertson and Andrew J. Millar, of the School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland. Plants make drastic changes to their biology to survive the changing seasons. Yet we know little about how they do this – despite the important clues it could give us on how plants adapt to harsh[…]

By Patrycja Sokolowska, PhD student at Rothamsted Research Monogram 2018 at John Innes Centre in Norwich was the first, and so far the only conference I have been to since I have started my PhD. Monogram has the established reputation to be the best cereal research meeting in the UK, and it gathers the most[…]

This weeks GARNet Research Roundup begins with a paper from researchers at the University of Dundee, James Hutton Institute, Durham University and the University of Glasgow that characterises a functional role for alternative splicing during the cold response. Second is a paper from Newcastle University that investigates the role of the OXI1 kinase during aphid[…]

Ben Sibbett University of Southampton Attending Monogram 2018 gave me a fantastic insight into the broad range of high quality research that is being conducted in the small grains community. As a PhD student, working on a specific project, it can become easy to neglect research that is outside of your primary focus. In addition, it[…]

This weeks GARNet research roundup includes six excellent papers investigating many aspects of Arabidopsis cell biology. Firstly Eirini Kaiserli from Glasgow introduces a novel regulator of blue-light signaling. Second is a paper that analyses the circadian clock with single cell resolution and is led by James Locke (SLCU) and Anthony Hall (Earlham Institute). The next[…]

GARNet is a community-facing UK network funded by BBSRC through Responsive Mode that supports the delivery of outstanding plant science research. GARNet’s primary focus is supporting researchers who work on fundamental areas of plant science, particularly around the adoption of new technologies and new ways of working. Recently members of the plant science community have[…]

The GARNet Coordinator Geraint Parry also acts as the science communication manager of the EU COST Action entitled ‘Impact of Nuclear Domains On Gene Expression and Plant Traits (INDEPTH). A major part of this activity includes supporting training opportunities for early career researchers. These can take the form of Short Term Scientific Missions (STSMs) and[…]

Eirini Kaiserli talks to GARNet about a recent open access paper in PNAS entitled ‘ZINC-FINGER interactions mediate transcriptional regulation of hypocotyl growth in Arabidopsis‘. http://blog.garnetcommunity.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Kaiserli_180503.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS

This weeks GARNet research roundup features four papers that include Malcolm Bennett (University of Nottingham) as an author. The first three are linked manuscripts that investigate the role of auxin on root hair development that is controlled by varying phosphate levels. Ranjan Swarup provides an audio summary of two of these papers on the GARNet[…]

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