Photo: pixabay.com Julia Kehr from the Department of Biology at Universität Hamburg successfully acquired an ERC Synergy Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for the investigation of signalling molecules in plants.
Julia Kehr from the Department of Biology at Universität Hamburg successfully acquired an ERC Synergy Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) this year. In the project 'Plant Mobile RNAs: Function, Transport and Features' (PLAMORF) Prof. Kehr will spend six years together with Dr. Friedrich Kragler from the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology in Golm and Richard Morris from the John Innes Centre in Norwich, Great Britain, to study signalling molecules in plants. The funding has a total volume of 6.1 million ', of which 2 million - go to the Universität Hamburg. Like all complex organisms, higher plants need vessels to transport metabolites and signalling molecules to distant tissues. There are two major tube systems that connect all plant parts: the phloem and the xylem. The phloem carries nutrients such as sugars through the plant, while the xylem transports water and minerals. The phloem also contains a large number of different signalling molecules, including ribonucleic acids (RNAs).
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