第1124回生物科学セミナー
How distress signals affect growth in plants : biotechnology for health and fuel production
Alessandra Devoto（School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway - University of London, UK）
2016年12月06日(火) 13:30-15:00 理学部2号館 201号室
Plant development and stress responses are regulated by complex signalling networks
that mediate specific and dynamic plant responses upon activation by various types of
signals. Jasmonates (JAs) mediate responses to stress and act like growth inhibitors. The
latest work has identified new regulatory nodes in the transcriptional network that
regulates a number of diverse plant responses to developmental and environmental cues.
In my laboratory, we are interested in discovering the cellular components linking plant
stress responses to growth processes with the aim to improve yield and adaptation of
plants to their environment. We also exploit the ability of JAs to induce protective
secondary metabolites to develop novel functional screenings to improve the
understanding of key pathways leading to the production of economically important
compounds. A second research line is aimed at tailoring the composition of cell wall
polymers to improve processing of biomass. The improvement of key traits for the
production of biomass and biofuels in microbes and plants is achieved by affecting the
composition of plant cell wall polymers. This research aims to develop novel plant
varieties and to select microbes to improve biomass and its processing.
