Stefanie Wienkoop - Vienna University

Please see below the next Department Seminar which will be featuring Stefanie Wienkoop from Vienna University on Wednesday 26th October 1-2pm at the Bourne LT 2.

Stefanie Wienkoop - Aspects on how and why Plants Control Symbiotic Relationships - Possible role of a Hypersensitive Induced Response protein

Plants need to constantly react and adjust to their environment. Factors that can affect plants' health (positively or negatively) are diverse and require their ability to differentiate.

Microbial symbiosis is usually beneficial for plant growth and enhanced tolerance to environmental perturbations such as drought and pathogen attack. Hence, understanding the underlying process that may lead to crop yield and quality protection is of great agricultural interest. However, plants need to control beneficial microbes as well as they may otherwise turn against them.

I will give an insight on how rhizobia symbiosis impacts on the immune system of legumes and I want to introduce an interesting control mechanism of these plants on how to actually restrict symbiotic relationships.

Stefanie Wienkoop (univie.ac.at) https://mosys.univie.ac.at/team/stefanie-wienkoop/

Host: Laurence Bindschedler

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