Specificities of plasma membrane-associated nanoclusters involved in cell elongation (D02)

Brassinosteroids (BR) and Phytosulfokines (PSK) regulate root cell elongation. We revealed the existence of specific BR and PSK perceiving complexes in the membrane that promote this response and developed a computational model that describes the involved processes. We aim to elucidate whether the BR and PSK perceiving complexes act within the same or different PM nanoclusters and interference with the nanocluster has functional consequences. Our cellular modelling knowledge will be integrated into an agent-based computational spatiotemporal representation of the whole Arabidopsis root. This should enable the deciphering of specificity coding in root elongation growth.

DFG Programme Collaborative Research Centres

Subproject of SFB 1101:  Molecular Encoding of Specificity in Plant Processes

Applicant Institution Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

Project Heads Professor Dr. Klaus Harter; Professorin Dr. Ursula Kummer; Professor Dr. Alfred J. Meixner; Privatdozent Dr. Frank Schleifenbaum, until 12/2017