Live and let Dry: a phylogenetic approach to understanding dehydration tolerance in plants

ITQB- Seminar
 

Title: Live and let Dry: a phylogenetic approach to understanding dehydration tolerance in plants

Speaker: Melvin Oliver

Affiliation: USDA-ARS Plant Genetics Research Unit / University of Missouri, Columbia, USA

Host: M. Margarida Oliveira - Genomics of Plant Stress Lab, GPlantS

Melvin Oliver's Website

Some subjects recently published:

- Desiccation Sensitivity and Tolerance in the Moss Physcomitrella patens: Assessing Limits and Damage.
- Chloroplast Genome Sequence of the Moss Tortula ruralis: Gene Content and Structural Arrangement Relative to Other Green Plant Chloroplast Genomes.
- Dehydration Tolerance in Plants.
- Transgenic Biofuel Feedstocks and Strategies for Biocontainment.
- Understanding Vegetative Desiccation Tolerance using Integrated Functional Genomics Approaches within a Comparative Evolutionary Framework.
- Exploiting the Genomes of Dehydration/Desiccation-Tolerant Species in Crop Improvement Strategies.
- Gene Flow in Genetically Engineered Perennial Grasses: Lessons for Modification of Dedicated Bioenergy Crops.
- An Integrated Strategy to Identify Key Genes in Almond Adventitious Shoot Regeneration.
- Large Scale Q-PCR Reveals Maize Transcription Factors that are Regulated Under Water Deficit in a Tissue-Specific Manner.
- A Comparative Metabolite Profile Assessment of Dehydration Tolerance Strategies in Two Species of Sporobolus: The Desiccation Tolerant S. stapfianus and the Desiccation Sensitive S. pyrimidalis.
- A Combined Subtractive Suppression Hybridization and Expression Profiling Strategy to Identify Novel Desiccation Response Transcripts From Tortula ruralis Gametophytes.
- Seed Targeted Gene Confinement Strategies.
- Putting Physcomitrella Patens on the Tree of Life: The Evolution and Ecology of Mosses.
- Responses of the Lichen Photobiont Trebouxia erici to Desiccation and Rehydration (II) Proteomics.
- Proteome analysis of leaves of the desiccation-tolerant grass, Sporobolus stapfianus, in response to desiccation.
- A Selection Procedure for Identifying Transgenic Cells and Embryos of Cotton Without the Use of Antibiotics.
- Biochemical and Molecular Mechanisms of Desiccation Tolerance in Bryophytes.
- Lessons on dehydration tolerance from desiccation tolerant plants.
- Desiccation tolerance in Bryophytes: a review.
- Desiccation tolerance in Bryophytes: relevance to the evolution of desiccation tolerance in Land Plants.
- Generational Differences in Response to Desiccation Stress in the Desert Moss Tortula Inermis.
- Evolutionary Linkage Between Drought and Vegetative Desiccation Tolerance in Plants.
- Desiccation Tolerance in Bryophytes: a Reflection of the Primitive Strategy for Plant Survival in Dehydrating Habitats?