Sarah Shailes

Main administration building of WWU Münster.
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Making waves at the Plant Calcium Signalling Meeting

Calcium ions (Ca2+) are important signal molecules to relay information around, and between cells. In plants, calcium signals are involved in many processes including cell growth, environmental stress (e.g. high salt in soil) responses, and defence against disease-causing microbes. Last week, many of the researchers studying calcium signals in plants gathered together at the Plant […]

Medicago truncatula root with nodules infected with Nitrogen-fixing rhizobia.
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Taking the Myc: evolution of the legume-rhizobia symbiosis

The legume family of plants can form a symbiosis with nitrogen-fixing bacteria known as rhizobia. In return for a supply of nitrogen compounds the plant provides sugars and houses the rhizobia in special organs called nodules (see figure). The development of the nodules and the infection of rhizobia into them are tightly regulated by the […]

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