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Arabidopsis Research Roundup: August 12th
12th Aug 2015
The UK Arabidopsis Research Roundup this week includes a couple of EVO-DEVO-type studies that compare processes within different organisms (Physcomitrella and Cardamine) to those occurring in Arabidopsis. These include the evolution of both hormone signaling and leaf development. Elsewhere a...
Plant Methods Thematic Series on Gene Editing
5th Aug 2015
The sponsor of the upcoming CRISPR workshop, Plant Methods, is inviting submissions to its new thematic series on Plant Genome Editing. The series is being launched in conjunction with the GARNet-OpenPlant CRISPR-Cas Workshop to be held at the JIC Norwich on 7-8 September 2015. The exciting field...
Arabidopsis Research Roundup: August 5th
5th Aug 2015
This weeks Arabidopsis Research Roundup bucks the recent trend of featuring large consortium-led studies as it contains four studies each from a single UK Institution. Matthew Jones (Essex) looks at the link between photosynthesis, the circadian clock and blue-light signaling whilst Miriam Gifford...
Arabidopsis Research Roundup: July 30th
30th Jul 2015
Two broad topics dominant the studies featured in this weeks Arabidopsis Research Roundup. Environmental and hormonal factors that control different types of ‘dormancy’ are presented in studies from the labs of Caroline Dean (JIC) and Ian Graham (York). Elsewhere two Sainsbury lab (Norwich) led...
BBSRC 2014 Responsive Mode Round 3.
24th Jul 2015
The BBSRC recently published the results from the final responsive mode round of 2014. The take home message for the Arabidopsis community was that it was a good round for New Investigators but less-so for other researchers in this area. The entirety of plant science grants were awarded through...
Arabidopsis Research Roundup: July 20th
20th Jul 2015
There is a bumper crop of publications in high quality journals in this weeks UK Arabidopsis Research Roundup, including manuscripts in PNAS, Nature Communications, PLoS Genetics , PloS One and Plant Physiology. Malcolm Bennett, Alex Webb and Anthony Hall lead a major collaborative effort that...
