Plantae Presents: Yvon Jaillais, Rosa Laura López-Marqués, and Antje Heese Special Event: Plant Physiology Focus Issue on Dynamic Membranes Recorded March 10th Membranes are highly dynamic structures, with the timescales for turnover of lipid and protein spanning orders of magnitude…

Review: Perspectives on improving light distribution and light use efficiency in crop canopies Light comes largely from above, and plants have evolved strategies to efficiently capture this light even when competing with other potentially shading plants. However, at a field-level, such competition…

Plantae Presents: Usha Vijayraghavan and Ramesh Sonti March 3:  6am EST, 11 am GMT, 4:30 pm Delhi Usha Vijayraghavan. Codes rice floret development: leads from studies on OsMADS1 regulated gene networks Usha Vijayraghavan obtained her Ph.D. in 1989 from California Institute of Technology,…

Review: Plant evolution driven by interactions with symbiotic and pathogenic microbes One of the great questions in plant science has been, “How do plants recognize friend from foe?” Like most great questions, this one benefits from a historical perspective. In their new review, Delaux and Schornack…

In this episode, our guest is Aman Husbands. Aman is originally from Canada and got his undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto. After completing his PhD at the University of California Riverside, he moved to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories. In 2018, he moved to The Department of Molecular…

Plantae Presents: Malcolm Bennett and Edith Pierre-Jerome Feb 17 -  10am EST, 3pm GMT, 4pm CET Malcolm Bennett: BREAKTHRU: uncovering how roots can sense and penetrate hard soils The hidden half of plant biology has been an enduring interest throughout Malcolm Bennett's 20-year research…

This week’s podcast is a conversation with Dr. Kevin Cox. Kevin earned his PhD at Texas A&M University before returning to his hometown of St Louis, Missouri to do a postdoc with Blake Meyers at The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center. Kevin has won numerous awards and grants and was recently…

Plantae Presents: Eric Schranz and Caroline Pont Recorded Feb 10 -  10am EST, 3pm GMT, 4pm CET Eric Schranz: Context Matters: Phylogenomic synteny analysis of plants and animals Eric Schranz is currently the professor of Biosystematics at Wageningen University. He was a an undergraduate…