报告人：Jim Weller 博士 澳大利亚塔斯马尼亚大学

时间：5月27日上午10:00

地点：华南植物园1号实验楼第三会议室

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个人简介

    Jim Weller博士是澳大利亚塔斯马尼亚大学生命科学学院植物遗传学的副教授，也是澳大利亚研究委员会的未来学者。1996年获得博士学位。之后在日本理化研究所和荷兰瓦宁根大学从事6年的博士后研究。2002年返回塔斯马尼亚大学获得助理教授职位。

    Weller博士对植物生理学、植物发育和进化具有广泛的兴趣。目前主要从事豌豆、苜蓿菜豆等豆科作物的开花、茎尖发育、激素功能和光温反应的分子遗传研究。同时利用比较生物学、作物驯化和自然变异来改良豆科作物的产量。

代表性论文：

Rubenach AJS, Hecht V, Vander Schoor JK, Liew LC, Aubert G, Burstin J, Weller JL (2017) EARLY FLOWERING 3 redundancy fine-tunes photoperiod sensitivity. Plant Physiology 173, 2253-2264

Ridge S, Sussmilch FC, Hecht V, Lee R, Vander Schoor JK, Aubert G, Burstin J, Macknight RC, Weller JL (2016) Identification of LATE BLOOMER2 as a CYCLING DOF FACTOR homolog reveals conserved and divergent features of the flowering response to photoperiod in pea. Plant Cell 28, 2545-2559

Sussmilch F, Berbel A, Hecht V, Ferrandiz C, Madueño F, Weller JL (2015) VEGETATIVE2 is an FD ortholog essential for flowering and compound inflorescence formation in pea. Plant Cell 27: 1046-1060

Weller JL, Foo E, Hecht V, Reid JB (2015) Ethylene signaling influences light-regulated development in pea. Plant Physiology 169, 115-124

Liew LC, Hecht V, Sussmilch F, Weller JL (2014) The pea photoperiod response locus STERILE NODES gene is an ortholog of LUX ARRHYTHMO. Plant Physiology 165, 648-657

Weller JL, Liew LC, Hecht V, Rajandran V, Laurie RE, Wenden B, Ridge S, Vander Schoor JK, Jaminon O, Blassiau C, Dalmais M, Rameau C, Bendahmane A, Macknight RC, Lejeune-Hénaut I (2012) A conserved molecular basis for photoperiod adaptation in two temperate legumes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 109 (51) 21158-21163

Berbel A, Ferrándiz C, Hecht V, Dalmais M, Lund OS, Sussmilch FC, Taylor SA, Bendahmane A, Ellis THN, Beltrán JP, Weller JL, Madueño F (2012) VEGETATIVE1 is essential for development of the compound inflorescence in pea. Nature Communications 3, 797

Laurie RE, Diwadkar P, Jaudal M, Zhang L, Hecht V, Wen J, Tadege M, Mysore KS, Putterill J, Weller JL, Macknight RC (2011) The Medicago truncatula FLOWERING LOCUS T homologue, MtFTa1, is a key regulator of flowering time. Plant Physiology 156, 2207-2224.

Hecht V, Laurie RE, Vander Schoor JK, Ridge S, Knowles CL, Liew LC, Sussmilch FC, Murfet IC, Macknight RC, Weller JL (2011) The pea GIGAS gene is a FLOWERING LOCUS T homolog necessary for graft-transmissible specification of flowering but not for responsiveness to photoperiod. Plant Cell 23, 147-161

Liew LC, Hecht V, Laurie RE, Knowles CL, Vander Schoor JK, Macknight R, Weller JL (2009). DIE NEUTRALIS and LATE BLOOMER 1 contribute to regulation of the pea circadian clock. Plant Cell 21, 3198-3211

Weller JL, Hecht V, Vander Schoor JK, Davidson SE, Ross JJ (2009) Light regulation of gibberellin biosynthesis in pea is mediated through the COP1/HY5 pathway. Plant Cell 21, 800-813