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GenomeWeb Daily News highlights the start of the vSEED project by Mike Holdsworth — last modified 06-11-09 12:52

UK, Germany, Netherlands Give $2.5M for Plant Systems Biology Effort.

PNAS paper: A genome-wide network model capturing seed germination reveals coordinated regulation of plant cellular phase transitions. by Mike Holdsworth — last modified 07-06-11 19:11

The paper focuses on seed germination, a trait of key agricultural and ecological significance representing a phase transition from embryonic to vegetative states. It is both the starting point for the majority of world agriculture and determines the entry point of plants into ecosystems. Germination is a complex trait with only a handful of regulators having been identified through classical genetic screens. In this manuscript we generated and analysed a genome-wide network model using publicly available data that describes global transcriptional interactions in Arabidopsis seeds that we term “SeedNet”, and show that SeedNet represents a step-change in our understanding of the regulation of germination.

International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics paper: Axisymmetric indentation of curved elastic membranes by a convex rigid indenter by Mike Holdsworth — last modified 21-05-11 15:37

This paper looks at how an elastic membrane deforms when a rigid indenter is pushed into it. The membrane is allowed to have an arbitrary shape and elastic properties, while the indenter may also take any convex shape.