HARDTKE LAB – Molecular Genetics of Root Development
…et quid amabo nisi quod vita enigma est?
Who would have thought BRX mutants and transgenics will make it to the museum one day? An intriguing exposition at the Natural History Museum in Sion explores the question where …
The grey zone between natural and artificial exposed Read More
Samuel Koh Wee Han.
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Phosphosites in the linker region of BRX family proteins determine whether or not their association with the plasma membrane association is sensitive to auxin. Congratulations to Sam and co-workers for …
88 figure panels, 1 straightforward message: Read More
The bulk of Bernard’s thesis now published: “Local auxin competition explains fragmented differentiation patterns”, a study emerging from a collaboration with mathematician and theoretical biologist Kirsten ten Tusscher from Utrecht …
Local auxin competition explains fragmented differentiation patterns Read More
Our latest study in the developmental cell biology of phloem sieve element differentiation is out now! Maybe the experimentally most elaborate paper we have published to date, in Developmental Cell. …
Of Muffins and Donuts. Read More
The culmination of persistent, patient, phantastic collaboration with the labs of Claus Schwechheimer and Uli Hammes at the Technical University of Munich. It allowed us to pin down the nearly …
6 years in the making. Read More
Pietro’s paper on the underground role of the BIG BROTHER gene in organ size restriction published!
BIG BROTHER is watching roots. Read More
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OCTOPUSSY, the sequel, finally screening Read MoreOn the role of brassinosteroid signaling in root meristem development. Including our probably most spectacular result from a reviewer-imposed (…and justified) control experiment: Fig. 5. Also see this highlight in Development.
Confocal microscopy tour de force published Read More
On the role of phosphoinositides in root protophloem differentiation and its effects on root branching, published in Development.
A small local defect with big systemic effects Read More