How do plants sense their environment?
Philip Brennan is a final-year Botany undergraduate student. He is working under the supervision of Dr. Ailbhe Brazel who is a Teaching Fellow on the Terraform project. Philip will be answering questions on how plants dynamically respond to their environment by integrating multiple molecular mechanisms. Philip will be working with a commonly used model organism in plant genetic research, Arabidopsis thaliana. Arabidopsis is a small herbaceous plant in the Brassicaceae family, a family containing many of the crops we eat every day such as cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower and turnip. Philip will be taking advantage of the vast genetic resources available in Arabidopsis to dissect the interactions between different molecular signalling pathways in response to stress and development. He will be using molecular as well as microscopy techniques in his project.
by Ailbhe Brazel
