Entries by Mary Williams

Beverley Glover. Flowering plant diversity: development, function and evolution

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Filmed at the Gatby Summer School, University of York, 2013 http://www.tree.leeds.ac.uk/tree.2.0/view_lecture.php?permalink=MTA2Nw Abstract: The enormous species diversity of the flowering plants has puzzled evolutionary biologists since Darwin’s day. The rapid radiation of the flowering plants can be attributed at least in part to their recruitment of insects as vectors for their pollen, and the subsequent reproductive […]

Jane Langdale. Radical Ag: C4 Rice and Beyond

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Filmed at the Long Now Foundation, March 2016. Revolutionary rice Feeding the world (and saving nature) in this populous century, Jane Langdale began, depends entirely on agricultural efficiency—the ability to turn a given amount of land and sunlight into ever more food. And that depends on three forms of efficiency in each crop plant: 1) […]

Images for Impact with Mary Williams

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Images for Impact Recorded October 2016  Download a handout with links and other information here. About this Webinar:  Whether you’re Tweeting or teaching, well-designed images increase the impact of your message. It’s easy to make high-quality images for use in science communication (whether social media, blogs, infographics, animations, teaching or research) simply using tools available […]

Communicating Effectively with Graphics

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Frédéric Bouché, a postdoctoral research with Richard Amasino at the University of Wisconsin, recently caught our attention when he published a set of impressive visual abstracts to support his latest research papers. We invited him to share how and why he makes these images. -Editors When you work hard, and your scientific work is finally […]

Network-based integration of systems genetics data reveals lignocellulosic metabolic pathways

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Eucalypts are fast-growing trees increasingly exploited for pulp, paper, bioenergy and other wood-based products. Using genetics tools and a network-based data integration (NBDI) approach, Mizrachi et al. explore a segregating Eucalyptus hybrid population for genes and pathways underlying biomass / bioenergy traits. Their analysis produced an expression QTL (eQTL) map and molecular networks associated with […]

A pectase lyase that is an indirect target of a Xanthomonas TAL effector promotes susceptibility

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One of the many ways that Xanthomonas bacteria manipulate their host plants is by the production of transcription activator-like (TAL) effectors, which the bacterium introduces into the host cell where they alter gene expression in the host nucleus. Schwartz et al. investigated the targets of the TAL effector AvrHah1 produced by the pathogen Xanthomonas gardneri […]

Transgenerational biocontrol against root-knot nematode following priming by biocontrol fungus

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Root-knot nematodes including Meloidogyne javanica are major agricultural pests. Previous studies have shown that biocontrol agents including species of the fungal genus Trichoderma interfere with root-knot nematode pathogenicity, directly through effects on the nematode, and indirectly through a stimulation of plant defenses (priming).  Medeiros et al. investigated the mechanism of priming by Trichoderma atroviride, using […]