There are quite a few of us, interested in Plant Photobiology. Plant, Cell & Environment decided to do a special issue on Photomorphogenesis, you find it here. We are publishing a review on signals en ecological consequences of shade avoidance … Continue reading
Reaching out of the shade
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Cucumber is such a nice species for visualization… Plant on the left is in control white light, whereas the plant on the right is in white light supplemented with far-red light. Far-red light is reflected by plants and evaluated by … Continue reading
Light on the dark side of plant development
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We, being plant photobiologists, typically study the aboveground plant parts when investigating the effects of light signaling. Nevertheless, a substantial part of the plant is hidden in the soil that presents a multitude of challenges to plants as well. plant … Continue reading
cool project
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When you start getting text message with images like the above from your PhD students, taken from their window, you know they’re on to a cool project. We (Rashmi Sasidharan (initiator of it all) Martina Huber, Justine Toulotte, Kaisa Kajala, Rens … Continue reading
Biodiversity
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We are very happy to use all the fantastic opportunities that the Arabidopsis model system offers to plant scientists. Our latest papers in PNAS (Pantazopoulou et al., 2017) and Current Biology (de Wit et al., 2016) are just two examples … Continue reading
New team member
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We are happy to welcome to Kaisa Kajala on a tenure track position in our team. Kaisa did a post-doc at UC-Davis and started last week with us, you can find more information on her research interests here.
Eye-plant coordination
Plants are sun worshippers and shade-avoidant. As soon as a leaf ‘sees’ shade, it either points its tip up, has the petiole grow further towards the light, or does a bit of both. We teamed up with researchers from Wageningen to decipher how plants coordinate between light detection (“eye) and response of the plant itself, which involves surprising insights. Our joint results were published in the scientific journal PNAS on 26 June with our PhD students Chrysa Pantazopoulou and Franca Bongers as lead authors.
Read the full UU news story here
The paper can be found on the PNAS website
3D Computational Arabidopsis model Local light quality manipulation
PhD Graduation
Franca Bongers successfully defended her PhD thesis “How virtual shade sheds light on plant plasticity” at Wageningen University (WUR). The project was a collaboration between Niels Anten, Jochem Evers (both WUR) & Ronald Pierik (UU). It combined our expertises on computational modeling, shade avoidance and game-theory. Check out our papers from this project so far:
PNAS, 2017: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/06/21/1702275114.abstract
New Phytologist 2014: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.13041/abstract
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