During the last years, our lab has been busy understanding the role of one of the very complex features of the plant cell, the wall, in plant responses to salt. One of the key questions we aim to answer in our research is how plants sense salinity of the soil. Recently, it is becoming clear … Continue reading Cell Walls in Salt stories from the Roots in Salt team
From left to right: Silvia Bugallo Alfageme, Pinelopi Kokkinopoulou and Shu-Hua Hsu. This spring/summer we welcomed another three new colleagues. Silvia has joined us as a new PhD candidate working on salt resilience in lettuce as part of the Dutch LettuceKnow consortium. Pinelopi is strengthening our VICI team as a research technician to support phenotyping and … Continue reading Another three new colleagues
Since the start of her PhD here @WUR, Hongfei Li is interested in shoot-root communication under salt stress, with a special focus on a salt tolerance champion, the halophyte species Schrenkiella parvula. Carbon, as an important carrier of energy is fixed by photosynthesis in shoots and transported from shoot (source) to root (sink). Carbon export … Continue reading Hongfei @ETH
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