BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 14.3//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Arab Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230101 TZNAME:Arab Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:+0300 TZOFFSETTO:+0300 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Theme : Drought Tolerance in wheat and deregulation of GM wheat – \;hosted by Professor Brande WulffAbstract:Biotechnology\n and fund amental research are in continuous crosstalk. How some plant \nspecies are more able to adapt themselves to adverse environmental \nconditions leads us to study stress responses at the molecular level\, \nfocusing on the f irst steps in which transcription factors are key \nplayers. The sunflower HaHB4 and HaHB11 genes resulted in \nbiotechnological tools to improve cr ops. After a long way from the \nlaboratory to the field and from a model plant to crops\, HaHB4-wheat \nbecame the first modified crop arriving at the market in which the gene \ndonor is another plant. On the way are HaHB 4 soybean and HaHB11 maize. \nThese crops have shown yield improvements in different regions with \ndifferent soil qualities\, climates\, and rainfa ll regimes. The \nobservation of these plants indicated that stem width is the major trait\n determining seed yield. We succeeded to provoke this ef fect by \nmechanical treatment\, resulting in a yield increase.Bio:She\n i s currently a Senior Researcher at CONICET-Argentina\, Senior Lecturer \na t UNL\, Director of the Agrobiotechnology Institute. Her research \nfocuse s on plant adaptation to environmental stress\, starting from the \nstudy of molecules as transcription factors until modified crops in \nfield tria ls. Her degree was completed at the Hebrew University of \nJerusalem (1981 ) and her Ph.D. at CEFOBI (CONICET-UNR). She did a \npost-doc at the IBMP (Strasbourg-France\, 1988-1992) and then joined the \nMolecular Biology In stitute (Rosario-Argentina\, 1993) as a CONICET \ncareer member. In 1999 s he moved to the Coastal National University. She\n is co-author of 95 arti cles published in prestigious journals\, nine \nbook chapters\, dozens of science divulgation articles\, and co-inventor \nof ten international pate nts involving biotechnological tools for crop \nimprovement. She received recognition and awards\, such as Jorge Sabato \n(2013)\, Konex Foundation (2013)\, Rosario city- IBR Foundation (2019)\, \nand was selected by the B BC together with IANAS as one of the ten women \nwho lead science in Latin America (2013)\, nominated by Crop Life \nInternational (2019) as Female Food Hero\, among others. She has been \nincorporated into the Santa Fe Ac ademy of Medical Sciences (2020)\, the \nNational Academy of Sciences (Arg entina\, 2021)\, and the Latin-American \nAcademy of Science (2021)\, IICA chair (Costa Rica\, 2022). DTEND:20220407T130000Z DTSTAMP:20240328T151025Z DTSTART:20220407T120000Z LOCATION:Zoom SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:CDA Spring Lecture Series - Crosstalk between fundamental research and biotechnology aiming at crop improvement involving HD-Zip I transcript ion factors UID:RFCALITEM638472462256781538 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Theme : Drought Tolerance in wheat and deregulation of GM wheat – \;hosted by Professor Brande W ulff
Abstract:
Biotechnology\n and fundamental r
esearch are in continuous crosstalk. How some plant \nspecies are more abl
e to adapt themselves to adverse environmental \nconditions leads us to st
udy stress responses at the molecular level\, \nfocusing on the first step
s in which transcription factors are key \nplayers. The sunflower HaHB4 an
d HaHB11 genes resulted in \nbiotechnological tools to improve crops. Afte
r a long way from the \nlaboratory to the field and from a model plant to
crops\, HaHB4-wheat \nbecame the first modified crop arriving at the marke
t in which the gene \ndonor is another plant. On the way are HaHB4 soybean
and HaHB11 maize. \nThese crops have shown yield improvements in differen
t regions with \ndifferent soil qualities\, climates\, and rainfall regime
s. The \nobservation of these plants indicated that stem width is the majo
r trait\n determining seed yield. We succeeded to provoke this effect by \
nmechanical treatment\, resulting in a yield increase.
Bio:
She\n is currently a Senior Researcher at
CONICET-Argentina\, Senior Lecturer \nat UNL\, Director of the Agrobiotec
hnology Institute. Her research \nfocuses on plant adaptation to environme
ntal stress\, starting from the \nstudy of molecules as transcription fact
ors until modified crops in \nfield trials. Her degree was completed at th
e Hebrew University of \nJerusalem (1981) and her Ph.D. at CEFOBI (CONICET
-UNR). She did a \npost-doc at the IBMP (Strasbourg-France\, 1988-1992) an
d then joined the \nMolecular Biology Institute (Rosario-Argentina\, 1993)
as a CONICET \ncareer member. In 1999 she moved to the Coastal National U
niversity. She\n is co-author of 95 articles published in prestigious jour
nals\, nine \nbook chapters\, dozens of science divulgation articles\, and
co-inventor \nof ten international patents involving biotechnological too
ls for crop \nimprovement. She received recognition and awards\, such as J
orge Sabato \n(2013)\, Konex Foundation (2013)\, Rosario city- IBR Foundat
ion (2019)\, \nand was selected by the BBC together with IANAS as one of t
he ten women \nwho lead science in Latin America (2013)\, nominated by Cro
p Life \nInternational (2019) as Female Food Hero\, among others. She has
been \nincorporated into the Santa Fe Academy of Medical Sciences (2020)\,
the \nNational Academy of Sciences (Argentina\, 2021)\, and the Latin-Ame
rican \nAcademy of Science (2021)\, IICA chair (Costa Rica\, 2022).