Work in progress This last week I have been busy with organising my results and preparing them for a presentation that I gave for some of our department. And although I have made some progress with my project since I started it, the presentation I gave highlighted the lack of useful progress during the lastContinue reading “Work in progress”
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New lipid biosensor shines some light on stress response
New lipid biosensor shines some light on stress response PA (phosphatidic acid) is a membrane lipid, however it is also an important signalling lipid involved in the regulation of important cellular processes. In plants PA has been shown to be involved in the regulation of stomata opening as well as in drought and salt stress.Continue reading “New lipid biosensor shines some light on stress response”
When NaCl knocks on plant’s door
When NaCl knocks on plant’s door When a plant root comes across a patch of soil with a higher amount of salt, one of the first things it does is sending up a wave of Ca2+ signal up to the shoot. Depending of the size of the plant this Ca2+ wave can reach the topContinue reading “When NaCl knocks on plant’s door”
The sensing of salt
The sensing of salt How plants sense salt has at last been deciphered by the group of Zhen-Ming Pei. For their last publication in Nature they went on the hunt for mutants that did not show salt induced Ca2+ spikes. This resulted in the identification of a mutant they named moca1 for monocation-induced [Ca2+]i increasesContinue reading “The sensing of salt”
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