Seasonal control of flowering in annual and perennial plants

Add to your list(s) Download to your calendar using vCal

• Professor George Coupland - MPI for Plant Breeding, Cologne
• Thursday 05 March 2009, 16:00-17:00
• Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact jb511.

We are comparing the mechanisms by which the life cycles of annual and perennial plants are synchronised to the changing seasons. Arabidopsis thaliana is a model annual plant and we have shown how circadian-clock regulation of transcription of specific regulatory genes and photoreceptor signaling combine to promote flowering of this species in response to long summer days. As a perennial species, we have used Arabis alpina, which diverged from Arabidopsis around 30 million years ago. We have studied the effects of vernalization (exposure to low winter temperatures) on the life cycle of Arabis alpina and propose that genes involved in vernalization of Arabidopsis are differently regulated in A. alpina to confer perennial-specific traits. Evolution of the regulation of these genes involves changes in chromatin regulation. The talk will expand on these comparative approaches to study flowering-time control.

http://www.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/english/research/couplandGroup/coupland/

This talk is part of the Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars series.

This talk is included in these lists:

• All Talks (aka the CURE list)
• Biology
• Biology
• CambPlants Hub
• Cambridge Global Food Security
• Cambridge Global Food Security
• Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre
• Interesting talks- 1st try
• Life Sciences
• Life Sciences
• ME Seminar
• Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars
• Reception - Plant Sciences
• ji247's list
• my_list
• other talks

Note that ex-directory lists are not shown.