|
Project properties |
|
| Title | Investigating salt-induced pathways controlling root branching |
| Group | Plant Physiology, Laboratory of |
| Project type | thesis |
| Credits | 24-39 |
| Supervisor(s) | Yiyun Li, Dr. Joram Dongus |
| Examiner(s) | Prof. Dr. Christa Testerink |
| Contact info | yiyun.li@wur.nl, joram.dongus@wur.nl AND thesis.PPH@wur.nl |
| Begin date | 2022/09/01 |
| End date | 2025/10/01 |
| Description | Salt stress poses a serious threat to plant growth and survival. Salt can induce redistribution of the root system to result in changes in lateral root development. In our previous work we found a mutant showed a salt-induced lateral root phenotype, which may indicate that a pathway other than conventional pathways that regulating root branching exists under salt stress. We are using state-of-the-art transcriptome analyses to elucidate the effect of salt on plant (lateral) root growth and differentiation. In this project you will investigate the candidates in this salt-induced pathway that activates lateral root formation as well as the role of phytohormones in this process.
Further reading: Karlova, R., Boer, D., Hayes, S. & Testerink, C. Root plasticity under abiotic stress. Plant Physiol. 187, 1057–1070 (2021), https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiab392. Lavenus, Julien, et al. “Lateral root development in Arabidopsis: fifty shades of auxin.†Trends in plant science 18.8 (2013): 450-458 https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2013.04.006 Banda, Jason, et al. “Lateral root formation in Arabidopsis: a well-ordered LRexit.†Trends in plant science 24.9 (2019): 826-839, doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2019.06.015. If you are interested in this project please contact the supervisor via email with a copy to thesis.PPH@wur.nl with: 1. Your motivation for choosing this project 2. For which purpose (BSc or MSc thesis, research practice, etc) 3. Your BSc/MSc program 4. When you would like to start Please be aware that if you do not provide the required information above it may cause a delay in our reply. |
| Used skills | Phenotyping of root system architecture
Genotyping Cloning CRISPR mutation Microscopy Data analysis in R/Python |
| Requirements | Basic knowledge of plant physiology and molecular biology, creative and critical thinking |