EMBO Member
Salomé Prat
EMBO 2008
Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
Light and thermal control of plant development
Prof. Salomé Prat is an expert in plant molecular physiology, with broad know-how in the areas of light and hormonal signaling. Her team identified a protein interaction cascade involving the DELLA repressors that restrict cell elongation by blocking PIFs DNA binding activity. Furthermore, she established that a day length-pathway related to the one controlling floral transition in Arabidopsis modulates storage organ formation in potato.
Keywords
Light signalling / gibberellin / Arabidopsis / photoperiod / potato