The role of transcription factors and intercellular signals in specifying flower structure

Summary

This project will use molecular genetics and confocal-based imaging to investigate genes and signals involved in specifying the underlying structure of flowers.

Supervisor

Associate Professor Marcus Heisler.

Research location

School of Life and Environmental Sciences

Program type

PHD

Synopsis

Flowers are one of the most striking of biological structures and central to the reproduction of many crop plants. How is their basic "ground plan" of the flower patterned?

 

This project will investigate the role of transcription factors and intercellular signals in regulating the number and position of floral organs within developing flowers. It will utilise gene and protein targeted knockout, molecular genetics as well as confocal-based imaging to understand and re-engineer events at the cellular level.

 

The project contributes to a larger collaborative effort between USyd and three European labs, funded by a European Research Council Grant. Please see here for more details: https://www2.hu-berlin.de/resyde/

Additional information

Research location: LEES level 7 lab

 

Research keywords: Plants, flowers, live-imaging, transcription factors, development, patterning

 

No associated scholarship opportunity to this project.

 

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Opportunity ID

The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is 2370

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