Genetic regulation of leaf development in C4 grasses

Date

24 April 2018, Tuesday

Time and Venues

Venues	Local Time	Time Zone
Adelaide Waite Campus – B101-FG-R00-SmallWICWest	12:00 pm	ACST
Armidale – B55-FG-R00-Small	12:30 pm	AEST
Brisbane St Lucia QBP – Level 3 South telepresence room (3.323)	12:30 pm	AEST
Canberra Black Mountain – Discovery Lecture Theatre; Crace – Bld44- Meeting Room 3	12:30 pm	AEST
Narrabri Myall Vale – Conference Room	12:30 pm	AEST
Perth Floreat – B1b Boardroom	10:30 am	AWST
Hobart Sandy Bay – River View Room	12:30 pm	AEST
Toowoomba – Room TBA	12:30 pm	AEST
Werribee (Melbourne) – Peacock Room	12:30 pm	AEDT

Speaker

Professor Jane Langdale, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, UK

Synopsis

All grasses exhibit a characteristic strap shaped leaf blade but this consistent external morphology masks an underlying anatomical difference that distinguishes species that carry out C4 versus C3 photosynthesis. A multi-national effort aimed at introducing components of C4 photosynthesis into the C3 plant rice requires an understanding of the genetic regulation of C4 leaf development, so that leaf anatomy can be manipulated in rice. I will provide an overview of our current understanding of C4 leaf development, discuss recent research aimed at identifying genetic regulators of leaf anatomy, and illustrate how this research fits into the wider ‘C4 Rice Project’.

About the speaker

Jane Langdale is Professor of Plant Development in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Oxford. Her research focusses on understanding the genetic mechanisms that underpin how leaves develop and how they evolved (www.langdalelab.com ). She is currently co-ordinator of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded C4 Rice Project (www.c4rice.com ). She is an elected Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization and a Fellow of the Royal Society.

This is a public seminar.

Open-access to The CSIRO Discovery Theatre @ Black Mountain