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SUMMARY:What controls liverwort size and shape? - Jeremy Solly
DTSTART:20140620T123000Z
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CONTACT:Megan Cooper
DESCRIPTION:Plant cells are stuck together by their walls and cannot under
 go rearrangements during development. Therefore\, the regulation of organ 
 size and shape in plants must involve differential patterns of growth and 
 cell division across each structure as it develops. The development of mul
 ti-cellular structures predated the transition to land in the plant lineag
 e and plants share a basic molecular ‘toolkit’ to regulate growth. Rec
 ently\, growth patterns in flowering plant organs have been measured in de
 tail and modelled\, allowing us to gain mechanistic insight into the growt
 h regulatory processes underpinning organ formation. However\, very little
  is known about growth regulation in the living representatives of the ear
 liest plants.\n\nA plant growth form that is very different to any structu
 res found in flowering plants is the haploid liverwort thallus - a flatten
 ed\, forking mat which grows across the ground. The liverworts are the mos
 t basal living plant group and the fossil record suggests that thalloid fo
 rms may have dominated the early terrestrial flora. My project aims to und
 erstand how the thallus grows and what molecular components regulate this.
LOCATION:Department of Plant Sciences\, Large Lecture Theatre
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