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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Free on-line subscribtion to Physiologia Plantarum for SPPS members
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Renew or sign up now for 2008 SPPS membership.
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2008 is approaching rapidly and it is now time to renew your membership of SPPS. This can be done at the SPPS web-site by credit card or you can go to our Members section of the website and read about the advantages of SPPS membership.
As a new benefit, all members will from 1st January 2008 be able to access the SPPS publication, Physiologia Plantarum, on-line. The publisher will contact you directly via your e-mail after you have paid your membership fee in order for you to be able to log in to Physiologia Plantarum.
SPPS will in 2008 host the XVI Congress of the Federation of the European Societies of Plant Biology, taking place 17th -22nd August in Tampere, Finland (www.fespb2008.org). The next general assembly of SPPS will be held in connection with the FESPB Congress. Look forward to seeing you there. SPPS will make PhD student travel grants available for active participation in the FESPB Conference. Please also note that all SPPS members working in Scandinavia have the possibility of applying for grants to support short-term research visits to another Scandinavian laboratory.
Additional benefits from your membership of SPPS are:- An electronic membership directory
- Free SPPS newsletter
- Discounts on registration fees to SPPS Congresses and SPPS PhD conferences
- Discounts (up to 20%) on Blackwell scientific books
- Travel grants for PhD student members of SPPS for active participation in SPPS conferences
 Finally we would like to encourage you to subscribe to the hard copy of Physiologia Plantarum that will be sent to you each time a new issue is published. As a member of SPPS the price is only DKK900 per year and subscriptions can be paid alongside your membership fees.
Best regards
Jan K. Schjørring
SPPS President
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