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”
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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”
Great talk about Cross-kingdom RNAi by Hailing Jin
Great talk about Cross-kingdom RNAi by Hailing Jin Last week we were treated by a fantastic seminar from Hailing Jin from the University of California. In the over-airconditioned seminar room we quickly forgot about the cold while she introduced us in the world of cross-kingdom RNAi and small RNA trafficking between plants and fungal pathogens.Continue reading “Great talk about Cross-kingdom RNAi by Hailing Jin”
A case of plant blindness
A case of plant blindness Most scientist working on plants would have noticed at some time that plants are ignored by a lot of other life science researchers. Sometimes it will be during a talk whereby the presenter say something along the line ‘in all eukaryotes we have gene family X’ while you know geneContinue reading “A case of plant blindness”
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