Biology Department Seminar

"Functional Architectures of Plant Cell Walls"

Presented by Maureen McCann and Nicholas Carpita, Department of Biological Sciences, and Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University

Friday, July 14, 2006, 11:00 am — John Dunn Seminar Room, Bldg. 463

Cell walls define the size and shape of cells and, thus, the stature and form of plants. Our work is devoted to understanding the composition, synthesis, and architecture of plant cell walls and their dynamics during growth and differentiation. Plants invest over 10% of their genomes in building their cell walls. We have developed artificial neural network analysis of infrared spectra to classify a comprehensive range of cell wall architectures altered during development, by environmental perturbation, or by mutation. This analysis represents a novel way to identify “invisible” phenotypes in a systems approach to define the cell wall gene network.

Hosted by: John Shanklin and Ben Burr

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