Cytokinin Response Factors and their expanding roles in stress response

Location: LR11, Plant and Crop Sciences Building
Date(s): Wednesday 25th September 2019 (11:00-12:00)
Contact: Rahul Bhosale
Description: Cytokinin is a plant hormone involved in plant growth and developmental processes with an increasing roles in abiotic stress responses. Cytokinin Response Factors or CRFs are a group of transcription factors identified with connections to both cytokinin and abiotic stress. We have examined the expanding role that CRFs have beyond cytokinin in different abiotic stress responses, including oxidative, cold, and salt stress response. This has been done by examining different physiological parameters, transcriptome profiling, and measurements of cytokinin levels after changes in stress response. This work has revealed that specific stress responses of CRFs appears to mirror phylogenetic groupings of these proteins into evolutionary distinct clades that are conserved throughout Angiosperms.

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