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SUMMARY:Using transcriptomic analysis to understand C4 in wetland conditio
 ns. - Richard Smith
DTSTART:20130524T113000Z
DTEND:20130524T120000Z
UID:TALK44297@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Megan Cooper
DESCRIPTION:C4 photosynthesis uses anatomical compartmentalisation to conc
 entrate CO2 around RuBisCO\, thereby decreasing wasteful photorespiration 
 and significantly increasing photosynthetic rate compared to the ancestral
  C3 photosynthetic pathway. In order to integrate C4 photosynthesis into C
 3 crops to increase yield\, a global initiative is underway to engineer C4
  into rice. However\, all current C4 model species grow in starkly differe
 nt conditions to rice\, so how C4 might operate in paddy conditions is poo
 rly understood. I will describe my plans to use a cell-type specific and d
 evelopmental gradient transcriptomic approach to investigate how C4 develo
 ps and operates in the prolific C4 weed of rice paddies\, Echinochloa glab
 rescens. Further\, I will present several pieces of software I have develo
 ped to accelerate and improve transcriptome assembly and analysis. Finally
  I will outline how the applications of this informatics framework will en
 hance the amount and quality of information that can be gleaned from de-no
 vo transcriptome sequencing experiments\, and how this should provide insi
 ghts into the control and evolution of C4.
LOCATION:Biffen Lecture Theater\, Department of Genetics
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