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Soumana Datta Sumita Kachhwaha Vidya Patni Ramani Payal Lodha Rao D.V Sharma Ramavtar Sharma Manju Manmohan Arya Navneet Singh Chaudhary Gunjan Dubey Shika Gupta Amit Kotiya Anil Kumar Lalita Rishi Kesh Meena VINAY KUMAR MEENA Praveen Mohil Aparna Pareek Dr. Chandra Pal Singh Dr Richard J. Colgan View MoreMarcela Rojas-Pierce
professor
Department of Plant & Microbial Biology
North Carolina State University
United States of America
The vacuole is the major storage compartment in plant cells and has important implications for the nutritional value of agricultural crops. Our research is focused on identifying the molecular mechanisms that regulate the biogenesis of the vacuole and the delivery of tonoplast proteins to the vacuolar membrane. We use chemical and classical genetic approaches to characterize these mechanisms in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant vacuoles have additional functions in growth and development. Dynamics of vacuole fusion are also important for critical physiological functions such as the regulation of stomata closing during water deficit and gravitropism. Our lab is starting to elucidate molecular mechanisms of vacuole dynamics that may contribute to responses of plants to these environmental cues.