NEWS FROM
PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM
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Published monthly on behalf of SPPS by Wiley-Blackwell.
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How tubulins build the structure of barley
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It takes more than just a single type of tubulin, the major subunit of microtubules, to build the structural framework for the developing barley embryo. Expression profiles of 14 different tubulin genes generated by German and Ukrainian scientists have revealed that their levels of expression differed significantly during development. In general, expression of all the tubulin genes peaked at two days after flowering - apparently to sustain mitosis during endosperm formation. A less prominent peak around 8 days after flowering included only some tubulins and is believed to involve cell wall organization. One gene, HvTUA5 had a very distinct expression profile which is apparently associated with shoot establishment.
Read full article free: Radchunk et al. (December 2007) Physiologia Plantarum 131: 571-580
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NEWS IN BRIEF
FROM OTHER JOURNALS
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Pump structure gives hope for salt tolerant crops
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Source: Pedersen et al (13 December 2007) Nature 450: 1111-1115
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Carnivorous fungi hunted with lasso
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Source: Schmidt et al. (14 December 2007) Science 318: 1743
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SPPS PhD conference approaching
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Haslev, the venue of the SPPS PhD conference is within short reach from Copenhagen.
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The organizers of this year's SPPS PhD student conference are glad to announce that more than 55 PhD students have signed up for the coming conference in Haslev, Denmark, January 2008. The majority of the participants come from institutes or Universities in Northern Europe, however this year we will also have quite a few people from China, Japan, India, Ghana, Nigeria, Iran, Pakistan and USA.
The organizing committee looks forward to host this very international meeting, as it will be a great opportunity for all participants to present their work, share knowledge and start new collaborations with other plant research groups in the world. The organizing committee has started to select abstracts and invite the few selected PhD students to give an oral presentation of their work. Thus the final program of the conference should be finished right before Christmas.
You can register and read more about the conference on its official homepage.
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