World Congress on
Plant Genomics and Plant Science

Biography:

Magdalena Zuk has completed her PhD at 2003 in Wroclaw University and work on diversification of secondary metabolites in crop plants (flax, potato).She use techniques of  molecular biology including gene isolation and expression analysis, protein expression and analysis, plant transformation and in vitro cultures, metabolite identification in particular focusing phenolic components by HPLC-MS analysis.  She`s foxused on biomedical application of flax by-products. She published more than 35 papers in reputed journals. Member of a board of Linum Foundation, a non-profit organization promoting pro-health use of a flax products.

Abstract:

Many biochemical pathways in plants show a tendency to be flexible and to be responsive to environmental changes. This is related to the fact that plants cannot avoid environmental stress. One of the best examples is the phenolics pathway.The chalcone synthase (CHS) gene controls the key step in the flavonoid biosynthesis. Gene down-regulation resulted in tannin accumulation and reduction in lignin synthesis, but flax growth was not affected. This suggests that lignin content and thus cell wall characteristics might be modulated through CHS activity. This study investigated the possibility that CHS affects cell wall sensing as well as polymer content and arrangement. CHS-suppressed and thus lignin-reduced plants showed significant changes in expression of genes involved in both synthesis of components and cell wall sensing. This was accompanied by increased levels of cellulose and hemicellulose. CHS-reduced flax also showed significant changes in morphology and arrangement of the cell wall. The stem tissue layers were enlarged averagely twofold compared to the control, and the number of fiber cells more than doubled. The stem morphology changes were accompanied by reduction of the crystallinity index of the cell wall. CHS silencing induces a signal transduction cascade that leads to modification of plant metabolism in a wide range and thus cell wall structure.

Since GM crops are rather scarcely accepted worldwide, several studies have proposed epigenetic modification, based on  the plant treatment with short oligonucleotide sequences (OLIGO) that are homologues to the gene of interest. In most cases OLIGO silences the target gene by interference but in few cases target gene activation was reported. The recent data suggests that OLIGO technology is effective in the analysis of gene function as well as in the generating new types of plants. OLIGOs technology was also effective in CHS engineering in flax

Biography:

Jan szopa-skorkowski is currently working as Professor in Department of Biochemistry Genetic, University of Wrocław, Poland. Jan szopa-skorkowski international experience includes various programs, contributions and participation in different countries for diverse fields of study. His research interests reflect wide range of publications in various national and international journals.

Abstract:

Many biochemical pathways in plants show a tendency to be flexible and to be responsive to environmental changes. This is related to the fact that plants cannot avoid environmental stress. One of the best examples is the phenolics pathway.The chalcone synthase (CHS) gene controls the key step in the flavonoid biosynthesis. Gene down-regulation resulted in tannin accumulation and reduction in lignin synthesis, but flax growth was not affected. This suggests that lignin content and thus cell wall characteristics might be modulated through CHS activity. This study investigated the possibility that CHS affects cell wall sensing as well as polymer content and arrangement. CHS-suppressed and thus lignin-reduced plants showed significant changes in expression of genes involved in both synthesis of components and cell wall sensing. This was accompanied by increased levels of cellulose and hemicellulose. CHS-reduced flax also showed significant changes in morphology and arrangement of the cell wall. The stem tissue layers were enlarged averagely twofold compared to the control, and the number of fiber cells more than doubled. The stem morphology changes were accompanied by reduction of the crystallinity index of the cell wall. CHS silencing induces a signal transduction cascade that leads to modification of plant metabolism in a wide range and thus cell wall structure.

Since GM crops are rather scarcely accepted worldwide, several studies have proposed epigenetic modification, based on  the plant treatment with short oligonucleotide sequences (OLIGO) that are homologues to the gene of interest. In most cases OLIGO silences the target gene by interference but in few cases target gene activation was reported. The recent data suggests that OLIGO technology is effective in the analysis of gene function as well as in the generating new types of plants. OLIGOs technology was also effective in CHS engineering in flax

Biography:

Magdalena Zuk has completed her PhD at 2003 in Wroclaw University and work on diversification of secondary metabolites in crop plants (flax, potato).She use techniques of  molecular biology including gene isolation and expression analysis, protein expression and analysis, plant transformation and in vitro cultures, metabolite identification in particular focusing phenolic components by HPLC-MS analysis.  She`s foxused on biomedical application of flax by-products. She published more than 35 papers in reputed journals. Member of a board of Linum Foundation, a non-profit organization promoting pro-health use of a flax products.

Abstract:

Many biochemical pathways in plants show a tendency to be flexible and to be responsive to environmental changes. This is related to the fact that plants cannot avoid environmental stress. One of the best examples is the phenolics pathway.The chalcone synthase (CHS) gene controls the key step in the flavonoid biosynthesis. Gene down-regulation resulted in tannin accumulation and reduction in lignin synthesis, but flax growth was not affected. This suggests that lignin content and thus cell wall characteristics might be modulated through CHS activity. This study investigated the possibility that CHS affects cell wall sensing as well as polymer content and arrangement. CHS-suppressed and thus lignin-reduced plants showed significant changes in expression of genes involved in both synthesis of components and cell wall sensing. This was accompanied by increased levels of cellulose and hemicellulose. CHS-reduced flax also showed significant changes in morphology and arrangement of the cell wall. The stem tissue layers were enlarged averagely twofold compared to the control, and the number of fiber cells more than doubled. The stem morphology changes were accompanied by reduction of the crystallinity index of the cell wall. CHS silencing induces a signal transduction cascade that leads to modification of plant metabolism in a wide range and thus cell wall structure.

Since GM crops are rather scarcely accepted worldwide, several studies have proposed epigenetic modification, based on  the plant treatment with short oligonucleotide sequences (OLIGO) that are homologues to the gene of interest. In most cases OLIGO silences the target gene by interference but in few cases target gene activation was reported. The recent data suggests that OLIGO technology is effective in the analysis of gene function as well as in the generating new types of plants. OLIGOs technology was also effective in CHS engineering in flax

Biography:

Jan szopa-skorkowski is currently working as Professor in Department of Biochemistry Genetic, University of Wrocław, Poland. Jan szopa-skorkowski international experience includes various programs, contributions and participation in different countries for diverse fields of study. His research interests reflect wide range of publications in various national and international journals.

Abstract:

Many biochemical pathways in plants show a tendency to be flexible and to be responsive to environmental changes. This is related to the fact that plants cannot avoid environmental stress. One of the best examples is the phenolics pathway.The chalcone synthase (CHS) gene controls the key step in the flavonoid biosynthesis. Gene down-regulation resulted in tannin accumulation and reduction in lignin synthesis, but flax growth was not affected. This suggests that lignin content and thus cell wall characteristics might be modulated through CHS activity. This study investigated the possibility that CHS affects cell wall sensing as well as polymer content and arrangement. CHS-suppressed and thus lignin-reduced plants showed significant changes in expression of genes involved in both synthesis of components and cell wall sensing. This was accompanied by increased levels of cellulose and hemicellulose. CHS-reduced flax also showed significant changes in morphology and arrangement of the cell wall. The stem tissue layers were enlarged averagely twofold compared to the control, and the number of fiber cells more than doubled. The stem morphology changes were accompanied by reduction of the crystallinity index of the cell wall. CHS silencing induces a signal transduction cascade that leads to modification of plant metabolism in a wide range and thus cell wall structure.

Since GM crops are rather scarcely accepted worldwide, several studies have proposed epigenetic modification, based on  the plant treatment with short oligonucleotide sequences (OLIGO) that are homologues to the gene of interest. In most cases OLIGO silences the target gene by interference but in few cases target gene activation was reported. The recent data suggests that OLIGO technology is effective in the analysis of gene function as well as in the generating new types of plants. OLIGOs technology was also effective in CHS engineering in flax