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Becky Roberts B.Sc Biology (London) Tel: 0115 951 3091 |
rebecca@arabidopsis.infoRESEARCH INTERESTS while at the Bennett Lab
Plant parasitic nematodes reduce crop productivity and incur a large cost to agriculture world-wide. Heavy infection may render arable land useless for crop production without expensive and noxious nematicide treatment. My work focuses on the role of auxin in the establishment of a feeding site by obligate plant parasitic nematodes. The long-term aim is to find an alternative method of reducing nematode infection without the current environmental effects associated with nematode control.
Currently I am looking at this process in Arabidopsis thaliana (Col.), visualising auxin distribution and transport using reporter genes and epitope tagging approaches. Gene tagging is also being used to indicate the significance of auxin permeases in the nematode/host relationship. These methods will enable the assessment of the significance and role of auxin in nematode infection. The results in A. thaliana will then be compared to crop species. I hope to indicate whether the course of nematode infection may potentially be mediated.
My work is funded by a CASE BBSRC studentship with Advanced Technologies (Cambridge) Limited.
PRESENTATIONS
The Role of Auxin in Plant Parasitic Nematode Infection (0.4MB)
TARGET presentation, Nottingham, 8/8/2003. (21MB)
Lab talk, Investigating the role of auxin in nematode infection in Arabidopsis thaliana, Nottingham, 15/12/2003. (32MB)
Lab talk, Nottingham, 1/11/2004. (1.5MB)
Lab talk, Regulation
of LAX3, in silico promoter analysis, 28/2/2005.
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