REMINDER Van: "Delphine Verspeel" <delphine.verspeel@psb.vib-ugent.be> Aan: "meetings" <meetings@psb.vib-ugent.be> Verzonden: Dinsdag 12 september 2023 17:00:02 Onderwerp: You are invited to attend “Uncovering how plant roots use hormones as proxies to sense and respond to soil stresses” ON October 26, 2023 You are receiving this e-mail because you subscribed to our seminars announcements and reminders service at [ https://maillist.psb.ugent.be/mailman/listinfo/seminars | https://maillist.psb.ugent.be/mailman/listinfo/seminars ] . '' Uncovering how plant roots use hormones as proxies to sense and respond to soil stresses '' Prof Malcolm Bennett Plant & Crop Sciences University of Nottingham UNITED KINGDOM Thursday, October 26, 2023 11:00 Plants exhibit a remarkable ability to modify their growth and development in response to environmental signals and stresses. This ability is particularly striking during root development where plants have to forage in highly heterogeneous environments. I will describe how plant hormones enable roots to sense and/or respond to environmental signals. Examples include discovering how plants sense availability of moisture in soil by linking intercellular water fluxes with movement of hormones like auxin and ABA, triggering changes in root branching designed to maximise capture of soil resources (Orosa et al, 2018, Science; Mehra et al, 2022, Science). Plant roots also employ volatile signals like ethylene to sense changes in soil physical properties like compaction stress using a novel gas diffusion based mechanism (Pandey et al, 2021, Science). I will conclude by describing how mechanistic insights about hormone-regulated root plasticity is helping design stress resilient crops. Jozef Schell seminar room Technologiepark 71 - 9052 Invited by Prof Dirk Inzé, Prof Tom Beeckman and Prof Bert De Rybel If you do not wish to receive this information anymore, please unsubscribe from future mailings at [ https://maillist.psb.ugent.be/mailman/listinfo/seminars | https://maillist.psb.ugent.be/mailman/listinfo/seminars ] Genome editing, cutting-edge technology for a sustainable agriculture VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology Ghent University Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 71 9052 Ghent-Belgium Phone: +32(0)9 331 38 00 [ http://www.psb.vib-ugent.be/ | https://www.psb.ugent.be/ ]