Unraveling the Mysteries of Flower Formation
Dr. Martin Yanofsky
Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology,
Chair, Section of Cell & Developmental Biology,
Division of Biological Sciences
University of California, San Diego
Lecture to be given: March 6, 2008 / 6:30 pm / SDNHM
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For thousands of years, people have pondered the mysteries of flower development and how these flowers ultimately give rise to the fruit. Recent studies have begun to unravel these long-standing mysteries, leading to a detailed understanding of how a handful of genes interact to direct the formation of flowers and fruit. This new-found knowledge offers remarkable opportunities for increasing the yield of agriculturally important crop plants.
(left): In Arabidopsis and other flowering plants, ovules (false colored blue in this scanning electron micrograph) are normally enclosed by tissues of the carpels (green). In this mutant, however, carpel growth is defective leading to the exposure of the ovules. Photo credit: Jose Dinneny and Martin Yanofsky.
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Dr. Martin Yanofsky is internationally recognized for his research on the genetic control of flower and fruit development. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in Seattle and pursued his postdoctoral studies at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena before joining the UC San Diego faculty in the Division of Biological Sciences. He was named a Packard Fellow in 1991 and a Beckman Young Investigator in 1992, and recently was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Yanofsky currently serves as Chair of the Section of Cell and Developmental Biology at UC San Diego. |
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