RESEARCH TOPICS

Most of the world’s food and energy is produced by plants, so understanding how plants grow and respond to their environment is important. Cells move molecular cargo like proteins in small compartments called vesicles. How vesicles move throughout the cell is called vesicle traffic. Plant vesicle traffic is more complex than in animals and our understanding of how it is organised to support cell function and growth is limited. The Larson group aims to understand how vesicle traffic patterns in plants are coordinated by visualising and measuring changes in trafficking pathways when different parts of the vesicle delivery system are disrupted or in response to external stimuli. Describing how different cellular pathways affect each other will build a more holistic and complete picture of how the entire endomembrane system works together to support plant growth and adaptation to changes in the environment.

Keywords: endomembrane; vesicle trafficking; live cell imaging; plant cell biology; environmental response; organelle identity

PUBLICATIONS

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