Speaker: Prof. Siobhan M.Brady, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Plant Biology, University of California

Time: 13:00-14:30 p.m., May 9, 2025, GMT+8

Venue: Youcai Deng Hall, School of Life Sciences, PKU

Abstract: 

A plant's roots serve as a major line of defense against environmental stress to protect the plant as a whole. Roots of diverse plant species have found ways to deal with stress by devising cell wall modifications and natural barriers to resist drought, flooding,mineral deficiencies, and other insults that impair plant growth. Many plant species have evolved unique cell wall forms composed of specialized biopolymeric metabolites that are deposited in elegant patterns in specific cell types. These walls are largely molecularly understudied although they are linked with a variety of stress responses. I will describe my group's approaches that merge classic developmental genetics with systems biology to elucidate these developmental programs in multiple plant species.

Source: School of Life Sciences, PKU